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The New Politics of Old Age Policy » (second edition)
Authors: Robert B. Hudson
ISBN-13: 9780801894916, ISBN-10: 0801894913
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: July 2010
Edition: second edition
Author Biography: Robert B. Hudson
Robert B. Hudson is a professor and chair of the Department of Social Welfare Policy, Boston University School of Social Work. He is editor of The Future of Age-Based Public Policy, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Book Synopsis
The successor to Robert Hudson's The Future of Age-Based Public Policy, this volume offers a variety of perspectives on these policy issues that directly effect America's aging population -- particularly the relative merits of using chronological age to determine eligibility for government programs.
Table of Contents
| 1 | Contemporary challenges to age-based policy | 1 |
| 2 | A normative defense of universal age-based public policy | 23 |
| 3 | What justice requires : a normative foundation for U.S. pension reform | 42 |
| 4 | Decreasing welfare, increasing old age inequality : whose responsibility is it? | 65 |
| 5 | Social Security and the paradoxes of welfare state conservatism | 90 |
| 6 | When old age begins : implications for health, work, and retirement | 109 |
| 7 | Minority workers and pathways to retirement | 129 |
| 8 | The oldest old and a long-lived society : challenges for public policy | 157 |
| 9 | Reframing Social Security : cures worse than the disease | 183 |
| 10 | Sustaining Medicare as an age-related program | 205 |
| 11 | The politics of aging within Medicaid | 219 |
| 12 | The changing face of senior housing | 244 |
| 13 | The contemporary politics of old age policies | 265 |
| 14 | Using local tax levies to fund programs for older people : good politics and good policy? | 294 |
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