Volume 11, Issue 1 (1993) Social Gerontology: The Linkage of Sociological Knowledge and Practice
Volume 11 begins with an overview of sociology's contribution to the study of aging in society—both past and future. Cox and Newtson review the historical development of social gerontology and identify significant sociological perspectives that have been applied to the study of aging. Also included in this section are two reprinted articles. The piece by Pollak has been abstracted from Social Adjustment in Old Age: A Research Planning Report (Social Science Research Council, 1948). It represents one of the earliest reports on the implications of the changing demographic structure of society in the United States. A sociological understanding of what aging may be like in the twenty-first century is provided by Riley in an abstracted reprint of her 1990 Boettner Lecture. In this lecture, she addresses the critical issue of how social structures will need to be changed to foster the growing numbers, strengths, and heterogeneity of older people as we move into the twenty-first century.
Read more from guest editor Joyce M. Iutcovich in the Introduction to this issue.
Introduction
Introduction
Joyce M. Iutcovich
Full Sections
Section: Setting the Stage: Past and Future
Sociological Practice Editors, Harold Cox, Richard Newtson, Otto Pollack, Glen Heathers, and Matilda White Riley
Section: General Policy Issues
Sociological Practice Editors, Charles F. Longino Jr., Thomas R. Prohaska, Hansi K. Trites, Karen L. Scott, David Kowalewski, Steven Peterson, C. Neil Bull, and Share DeCroix Bane
Section: Caregivers of the Elderly
Sociological Practice Editors, Elizabeth K. Keech, Robert A. Harris, John M. Kelley, Lori F. Gerring, Christopher P. Peters, Jeffrey Michael Clair, Ferris J. Ritchey, Richard M. Allman, Gary T. Deimling, and Wendy J. Looman
Section: Medical System and the Elderly
Sociological Practice Editors and Jeffrey Michael Clair
Section: Educational Issues
Sociological Practice Editors, Edwin Rosenberg, and Arthur B. Shostak
Articles
History of Social Gerontology
Harold Cox and Richard Newtson
Social Adjustment in Old Age: A Research Planning Report
Otto Pollack and Glen Heathers
Aging in the Twenty-First Century
Matilda White Riley
Economic Diversity and Informed Old Age Social Policy
Charles F. Longino Jr.
Health Policy Development: Health Promotion and Illness Prevention Among Older Adults in Illinois
Thomas R. Prohaska, Hansi K. Trites, and Karen L. Scott
Everyday Lives of the Elderly: A Dimensional Analysis
David Kowalewski and Steven Peterson
The Rural Elderly: Providers' Perceptions of Barriers to Service Delivery: Providers' Perceptions of Barriers to Service Delivery
C. Neil Bull and Share DeCroix Bane
Pennsylvania's Family Caregiver Support Program: A Demonstration Project
Elizabeth K. Keech, Robert A. Harris, John M. Kelley, Lori F. Gerring, and Christopher P. Peters
Satisfaction with Medical Encounters Among Caregivers of Geriatric Outpatients
Jeffrey Michael Clair, Ferris J. Ritchey, and Richard M. Allman
Predictors of the Use of Respite Services by Caregivers of Alzheimer's Patients: Racial and Generational Differences
Gary T. Deimling and Wendy J. Looman
The Medical Sociologists' Contribution to the Interdisciplinary Geriatric Assessment Unit: A Sociology "With" Medicine
Jeffrey Michael Clair
Physicians' Treatment of Elderly Alcoholics
Sylvia I. Mignon
The Older Person as Mediator between Technology and Environment: Toward the Role of "Technoguide
Arthur B. Shostak
Editorial
Resources on Aging
Sociological Practice Editors
Contributors
About the Authors
Sociological Practice Editors
Editors
- Editors in Chief
- Elizabeth J. Clark
- Jan M. Fritz
- Guest Editor
- Joyce M. Iutcovich
