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Peer reviewedSurkin, Marvin – Social Policy, 1976
An interview with an elderly person now living in Miami provides valuable insights on some of the problems of organizing for social and political changes and the pressing concerns of senior citizens. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Geriatrics, Gerontology, Interviews
Peer reviewedStreetfeld, Elaine – Social Policy, 1976
Describes a program involving six children and 15 residents from a home of the aged working together in a common art experience for a five month period. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Age Groups, Art Activities, Children, Geriatrics
Peer reviewedShelley, Edwin F.; Shelley, Florence D. – Social Policy, 1976
A retirement index can be used by an individual or group to determine the most desirable time to retire from a particular employment or from employment in general. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Change, Employment Opportunities, Employment Practices, Employment Projections
Peer reviewedComfort, Alexander – Social Policy, 1976
Notes that most American institutions are unwittingly geared to age prejudice as in past times they were geared to race prejudice and sex prejudice. In determining needs and abilities, age is quite as irrelevant as is race. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Age, Age Groups, Bias, Economic Climate
Peer reviewedJacobs, Ruth Harriett – Social Policy, 1976
Concludes that what the older woman needs is what all humans need, but that what she gets, unfortunately, are very limited options. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Age Groups, Classification, Females
Peer reviewedClark, Merrell M. – Social Policy, 1976
Notes that among the urgent needs of Americans is the need to curtail the infernal, self-destructive bad news about American aging. (Author)
Descriptors: Age, Age Groups, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedGotbaum, Victor; Barr, Elinor – Social Policy, 1976
Suggests that volunteerism must supplement and not be a substitute for what should be a gainfully employed work force. (Author)
Descriptors: Citizen Role, Economic Climate, Geriatrics, Gerontology
Peer reviewedBowles, Elinor – Social Policy, 1976
Reviews and describes three programs in which older adults provide their services: foster grandparents, senior companions, and retired senior volunteers. (AM)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Federal Programs, Geriatrics
Peer reviewedNewmark, Gerald; Newmark, Sandy – Social Policy, 1976
Synanon is a community that offers the elderly an alternative to the lives of quiet desperation that many experience. It explores the myth that older people are inflexible and cannot change. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Influence, Community Role, Community Services
Peer reviewedJohnson, J. Myron – Social Policy, 1976
Although the use of date of birth is a method of classifying people has certain legal advantages because it provides a convenient dividing line, it results in misclassification of people into inappropriate categories. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Age Groups, Economic Climate, Employment Opportunities
Peer reviewedKasshaw, Patricia L. – Social Policy, 1976
Notes that programs to insure the elderly's community or social participation in the later years must be designed with the input of elderly and retired citizens. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Age Groups, Decision Making, Employment Opportunities, Geriatrics
Peer reviewedGolden, Herbert M. – Social Policy, 1976
Notes that attempts to apply research findings based on undifferentiated comparisons between black and white elderly toward the solution of problems faced by black elderly are doomed to ineffectiveness. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Age Groups, Blacks, Cultural Background
Peer reviewedSullivan, George; Florio, Coral – Social Policy, 1976
Reviews the various emerging roles that senior citizens can play in the educational field. (AM)
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Planning, Educational Trends, Geriatrics
Peer reviewedEtzioni, Amitar – Social Policy, 1976
Suggests that the view of older persons as a status group with unique specialized needs tends to set up a dysfunctional tension between older Americans and the rest of society. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Age Groups, Economic Factors, Geriatrics
Peer reviewedRosenblum, Marc J. – Social Policy, 1976
Suggests that the ultimate economic status of those beyond middle age, precarious at best, may come to depend more during the years ahead on federal employment policy rather than on the local labor markets. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Age Groups, Economic Climate, Economic Factors
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