scholarly journals The Complex History of old age in Pre-Modern and Modern England

2002 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 867-871
Author(s):  
Susannah Ottaway
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age

Paying for Old Age: Past, Present, Future

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Thomas ◽  
Paul Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Old Age Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age ◽  
The Uk

This chapter focuses on one fundamental aspects of an ageing population — how to pay for old age, individually and collectively. It also presents a study of the history of old age support in the UK and US and concludes that despite the quite different beginnings of the public pension and social security systems, government policy in both countries has become similarly locked in to a set of institutional arrangements which were devised to respond to immediate social and economic problems, but which have acquired a rationale and a dynamic of their own.

History of Old Age: From Antiquity to the Renaissance.

1991 ◽  
Vol 96 (5) ◽  
pp. 1506
Author(s):  
David G. Troyansky ◽  
Georges Minois ◽  
Sarah Hanbury Tenison
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age

Medicine and Old Age

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susannah Ottaway
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
The West ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age ◽  
Male Ageing ◽  
Human Life Span

This article attempts to pull together recent developments and to summarize our knowledge of old age. It primarily focuses on the history of ageing in the West and compares it with other cultures. It concerns the limits and possible extension of the human life span. It includes discussion almost exclusively on male ageing. There are a few medical texts written specifically on female ageing and these focus primarily on menopause. Most studies of the history of ageing, and certainly those most relevant to the history of medicine deal with the demographic and social history of old age and a few larger works have framed the discussion of old age history more generally as centred on the question of continuity versus change in the historical expectations and experiences of old age. There is currently a burgeoning literature on pensions and on old age institutions.

The Long History of Old Age

2006 ◽  
Vol CXXI (493) ◽  
pp. 1198-1199
Author(s):  
S. Ottaway
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age

A Cultural and Economic History of Old Age in America

2003 ◽  
Vol 78 (7) ◽  
pp. 914-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin C. Fleming ◽  
Jonathan M. Evans ◽  
Darryl S. Chutka
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Economic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age
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