Description
In the age of mass unemployment and declining welfare expenditure, the old are particularly vulnerable. This book is a head on challenge to official policies and attitudes towards the elderly, and presents a sharp alternative: a programme for radical change. A Manifesto for Old Age looks at questions of financial support, preventive health, work and retirement, attitudes and images of ageing, residential care, mobility, housing, access to educational and cultural resources, ethnic elders and the politics of ageing.