Product Description: Robert Neil Butler (1927–2010) was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging and the elderly. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of institutional settings, Butler coined the term "ageism" to draw attention to discrimination against older adults and spent a lifetime working to improve their status, medical treatment, and care...read more

Product Description: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Text of brief interpretive essays on gerontological vocabulary, for students and professionals. Discusses current terms common to health and mental health settings, including age discrimination, gray lobby, normal aging, wisdom, sexuality, and others...read more

Product Description: Following an introduction that outlines the history and projects the future of gerontology, the authors offer insightful profiles of roughly 300 researchers, teachers, and practitioners in aging. North Americans are heavily represented, though gerontologists from Great Britain and the Continent are included as well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Gerontology did not emerge as a scientific field of inquiry in the United States until the twentieth century. By tracing intellectual networks and analyzing institutional patterns, Crossing Frontiers shows how old age became a "problem" worth investigating and how a multidisciplinary orientation took shape...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Franklin Roosevelt envisioned social security to be the cornerstone 'for the kind of protection America wants' from the financial troubles people faced due to old age and family tragedies. By fulfilling its initial promise, social security has evolved into the nation's largest, costliest, and most successful domestic institution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Assesses social security's past performance, examines the problems which now face it, and discusses retirement, women's benefits, universal coverage, and federal health care programs (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Shades of Gray: Old Age, American Values, and Federal Policies Since 1920