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The End Game Author: Corey M. Abramson
ISBN: 9780674743953 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 244 Published: 17 May 2015 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 24.1 x 16.0 x 2.5 Description: Senior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge at some point? The End Game investigates whether persistent socioeconomic, racial, and gender divisions in America create inequalities that structure the lives of the elderly.Corey Abramson s portraits of seniors from diverse backgrounds offer an intimate look at aging as a stratified social process. They illustrate that disparities in wealth, access to health care, neighborhood conditions, and networks of friends and family shape how different people understand and adapt to the challenges of old age. Social Security and Medicare are helpful but insufficient to alleviate deep structural inequalities. Yet material disadvantages alone cannot explain why seniors respond to aging in different ways. Culture, in all its variations, plays a crucial role.Abramson argues that studying the experience of aging is central to understanding inequality, in part because this segment of t...
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