Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29878-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 280 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Berkeley Series in British Studies

As today’s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further insights from the interviews and photographs of celebrated social scientists such as Peter Townsend, whose work helped transform care of the aged. A comprehensive and sensitive examination of the creative pursuits, family relations, work lives, health, and living conditions of the elderly, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain charts the determined efforts of aging Britons to shape public understandings of old age in the modern era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenhalgh, Charlotte

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Aging and Twentieth-Century Britain
1. Experts and the Elderly: Social Research on Old Age
2. Talking with Peter Townsend: Elderly Britons at Home
3. Into the Institution: Residential Care for the Aged
4. “Making the Best of My Appearance”: Grooming in Old Age
5. Games with Time: Autobiography and Aging
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charlotte Greenhalgh is Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and teaches history at Monash University in Melbourne.