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SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY TODAY An Introduction
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1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a multidisciplinary fields such as gerontology? Are there any parallels to other fields, such as Women's Studies or African American Studies? 2. Do medical beliefs about the physical decline in old age proposed by nineteenth-century physicians influence our thinking about the elderly today? If so, how? 3. have the nineteenth-century of aging described in this chapter contributed to age-segregated programs, such as senior citizen centers, retirement villages and nursing homes that separate older people from younger age groups? have these views influenced social and political policies? |
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