Educational Gerontology: International Perspectives. Frank Glendenning (Ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985, pp. 240. ($25.00 U.S.)

1986 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
C.T. Gillin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Older People ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Retirement Preparation ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
Educational Gerontology ◽  
International Character

Summary AbstractThe book identifies the three distinct but related aspects of Educational Gerontology, specifically, educational opportunities for older people, education about aging for the general population, and education of professionals and para-professionals who work with the elderly. The first aspect, education for older people—including pre-retirement preparation—is emphasized. The volume has an international character with contributions from Britain, the United States, Denmark and Canada.

Directions and Trends in Aging Services: A German-American Comparison

1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald E. Gelfand
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older People ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Aging Services

Services for older people in many countries now appear to have strong similarities. There are, however, important differences in the directions and emphases of these services. This article examines factors related to differing trends in the development of services in the United States and West Germany, two countries that currently have major economic, social, and political commonalities. The differing historical development of these two countries is traced and related to the structure of services for the elderly, the role of professionals in developing these services, and the relative emphases on primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Predictions of future trends in services for older persons in the two countries are also explored.

A Will and a Way, What the United States Can Learn from Canada about Caring for the Elderly. R.L. Kane and R.A. Kane, New York: Columbia University Press, 1985 ($35.00).

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neena L. Chappell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Good Resource

SUMMARYIn A Will and a Way, Kane and Kane have once again demonstrated their ability to accumulate masses of data. This book offers a wealth of descriptive information on three long term care systems in Canada, as well as some of the features of these systems which may be appropriate for the United States (such as universal programs based on need, case management practices, panelling practices, and size of jurisdiction). Those interested in specific practical questions and/or figures on utilization will find this book a good resource. However, those interested in a broader discussion from a theoretically informed perspective or a good discussion of existing research in this area will be disappointed.

scholarly journals Rationalized aging

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alana Lee Glaser
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Direct Care ◽  
Direct Care Workers ◽  
Home Health Aides ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Flexible Accumulation ◽  
Direct Care Work

There are approximately 4.4 million direct-care workers in the United States. Comprising the labor of nurses, home health aides, certified nursing assistants, personal attendants, and companions to the elderly, direct-care work constitutes one of the fastest-growing labor niches in the United States. Within the commodified caregiving sector, cost-cutting imperatives to subdivide care labor introduce insalubrious complications for patients by cleaving – or attempting to do so – their physical needs from their emotional and relational needs, a process that I label ‘rationalized aging’. In this essay, I reflect on my experiences as a paid elder companion in New York City to argue that this process of subdivision combines earlier nineteenth-century rationalization strategies with neoliberal regimes of flexible accumulation and to highlight the consequences of subdivision in this sector both for care workers and for the patients in their care.

scholarly journals The Bermuda Oceanographical Committee

1938 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-112
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
History Of ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
First Time ◽  
International Character

The Royal Society has recently accepted responsibility for the administration of a Government grant given for the execution of a programme of oceanographical work based on the Bermuda Biological Station. In so doing it has, for the first time in its history, become the owner of a research vessel, and it is thought that a brief account of the proposed investigations and of the events which led to the formation of the Bermuda Oceanographical Committee might suitably find a place in these records. At Bermuda a marine biological station, founded by the Bermuda Natural History Society and supported by the Universities of Harvard and New York, has been in existence since 1903 ; but the recent history of the institution may be said to date from 1926, when a corporation was formed under the laws of the State of New York with the object of increasing the usefulness and international character of the station. Twelve trustees were originally appointed by the corporation, but the board was later increased to twenty, comprising thirteen members from the United States, three from Bermuda and two each from Great Britain and Canada. Professor E. G. Conklin was President of the corporation until the end of 1937, when he was succeeded by Dr C. Iselin.

The “Japanese Turn” in Fine Dining in the United States, 1980–2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Samuel H. Yamashita
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Wide Acceptance

In the 1970s, Japanese cooks began to appear in the kitchens of nouvelle cuisine chefs in France for further training, with scores more arriving in the next decades. Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Joël Robuchon, and other leading French chefs started visiting Japan to teach, cook, and sample Japanese cuisine, and ten of them eventually opened restaurants there. In the 1980s and 1990s, these chefs' frequent visits to Japan and the steady flow of Japanese stagiaires to French restaurants in Europe and the United States encouraged a series of changes that I am calling the “Japanese turn,” which found chefs at fine-dining establishments in Los Angeles, New York City, and later the San Francisco Bay Area using an ever-widening array of Japanese ingredients, employing Japanese culinary techniques, and adding Japanese dishes to their menus. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, the wide acceptance of not only Japanese ingredients and techniques but also concepts like umami (savory tastiness) and shun (seasonality) suggest that Japanese cuisine is now well known to many American chefs.

Applying the Devil's Works in a Holy Cause: Working-Class Popular Culture and the Salvation Army in the United States, 1879-1900

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-223
Author(s):  
Lillian Taiz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Salvation Army ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sunday Evening

Forty-eight hours after they landed in New York City in 1880, a small contingent of the Salvation Army held their first public meeting at the infamous Harry Hill's Variety Theater. The enterprising Hill, alerted to the group's arrival from Britain by newspaper reports, contacted their leader, Commissioner George Scott Railton, and offered to pay the group to “do a turn” for “an hour or two on … Sunday evening.” In nineteenth-century New York City, Harry Hill's was one of the best known concert saloons, and reformers considered him “among the disreputable classes” of that city. His saloon, they said, was “nothing more than one of the many gates to hell.”

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