Why Survive
Being Old in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11090564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erdman Palmore (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 280 |
| Publication date | 1978-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Why survive?: Being old in America, Robert N Butler, 1985 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2064452 |
| OpenAlex | W2063575625 |
| Language | EN |
The author questions the value of long life for its own sake, arguing that modern medicine has ironically created a group for whom survival is possible but satisfaction elusive. He proposed reforms to redefine and restructure the institutions responsible for the elderly in America
Political science · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Primary Care and Health Outcomes
Media Stereotyping
Unmasking the ‘elderly mystique’
Family Security or Social Security? The Family and the Elderly in New York State During the 1920s
A critical review of research relating to the learning, use and effects of additional and multiple languages in later life
Unexpected consequences of deinstitutionalization of the mentally disabled elderly
Congress (and evaluators) ought to pay more attention to history
The Effects of Drug Counseling and Other Educational Strategies on Drug Utilization of the Elderly
Determinants of Nursing Home Discharge Status
Limitations of the Family as a Supportive Institution in the Lives of the Aged
An Alternative Family Form for Older Persons
Loneliness and the Rural Widow
Two Generations of Elderly in the Changing American Family
Fear of Crime Among the Elderly
The Emergence of a Positive Gerontology
The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing
Connecting Seniors
Dialogical Self Theory
A conceptual analysis of Ageism
Reconsidering Successful Aging
From Senility to Alzheimer's Disease
Undergraduate Attitudes Toward the Elderly
How Young and Older Adults Differ in Their Responses to Perceived Age Discrimination.
Crises and Old Age Policy
Affirming Radical Equality in the Context of Covid-19
Providing Pastoral Care for the Elderly in Long Term Care Facilities Without a Chaplain Utilizing Coordinated Congregational Resources
Attitudes Toward Aging
Beyond Appearances
Older adults in churches
The hospice
Dependence and Autonomy in Old Age
The Basics of Sociology
Painting your life
Ageism in the medical encounter
Divorce and Family Support in Later Life
Expressions of self-ageism in four European countries
I don't want to be, feel old’
Geriatric Medicine and the Categorisation of Old Age; The Historical Linkage
Issues in Physician—Elderly Patient Interaction
‘I know it exists … but I haven't experienced it personally’
Managing the working body
Lifestyles of belief
Perceptions of Crime and Fear of Victimisation Among Elderly People
I Don't Feel Old’
Staying Put
Caveat Emptor
Age, Cohort and Perceived Age Discrimination
Relational competence, relationships, and adjustment in old age
Subjective well-being among Holocaust survivors
The Dilemma of Priest Retirement
Hard Times in Women's Lives
The Prevalence, Distribution, and Mental Health Correlates of Perceived Discrimination in the United States
Nursing Home Housekeepers
Fear of Crime Among Black Elderly
Employment opportunities for geropsychologists
Changes in the Labor Force Participation and Income of the Aged in the United States, 1947-1976
Fear of Crime among the Elderly
Fear of Crime as a Problem for the Elderly
A Cohort Analysis of the Use of Health Services by Elderly Americans
Successful Ageing' in Practice
Using intergenerational relationship teaching strategies in a college-level online gerontology course
Reflections from the Field
Pickleball Transcends the Generations in Southwest Indiana
Que idade tem o trabalhador mais velho? Um contributo para a definição do conceito de trabalhador mais velho
La peur du crime et la punitivité chez les personnes âgées
Mature models for an aging world
Estoy viejo” [I’m old]
The health and symptom care of widows
Impact of ageing on residential changes
Consumer Economics of Property Tax Policy for Senior Citizens
Social Segregation
Conceptions and tendencies of age discrimination and attitudes towards older people in selected regions in Finland and Sweden
Ageism or Healthism
A symbolic interactionism of dementia
Communication as Precursor and Consequence of Subjective Social Capital in Older People
Adult Ageing and Social Policy
The Essence of a Life
Old Age
Fear of crime
Evaluating the Rhetoric of Crisis
Everyday Awareness of Death
Supporting the old but neglecting the young? The two faces of ageism
Counseling Programs for Older Persons
Building on what you Know
The Importance of Race to the Life Situation of the Rural Elderly
Role Diversity
Moving House and Housing Preferences in Older Age in Slovenia
Prerequisites of an Adequate Theory of Aging
Age Discrimination in Turbulent Times
Ending the Physical Punishment of Children by Parents in the English-speaking World
Smoking and adulthood
Aging and masculinity
Gendered identities in old age
Thomas Hardy and Eugenio Montale
Health care providers' subjective understandings of old age
From invisible to extraordinary
Service as a female naval officer
The notion of precariousness among older adults living alone in the U.S
Service providers' modes of interacting with frail elders and their families
Successful ageing
Spiritual community in later life
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |