Title Beyond sixty-five : the dilemma of old age in America's past / Carole Haber

Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983

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W'PONDS	305.260973 Hab		AVAILABLE

Description ix, 181 pages ; 24 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Classifying Society's Superannuated; 2. Aging in Colonial America; 3. Social Realities and Perceptions of Old Age in the Nineteenth Century; 4. Medical Models of Growing Old; 5. Treating the Postclimacteric Stage; 6. Institutionalizing the Elderly; 7. The Pension Barrier; 8. Old Age in a Bureaucratic Society Analysis United States Old persons Social aspects 1650-1900 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 171-175 Subject Aging -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Older people -- Services for -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Older people -- United States -- History -- 19th century. LC no. 82012786 ISBN 052125096X

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