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The overselling of population aging : apocalyptic demography, intergenerational challenges, and social policy / edited by Ellen M. Gee and Gloria M. Gutman.

Contributor(s): Gee, Ellen Margaret Thomas, 1950- | Gutman, Gloria MMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: The studies in Canadian populationPublication details: Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. Description: ix, 154 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0195414659 (pbk.)Subject(s): Older people -- Canada -- Social conditions -- Congresses | Aging -- Social aspects -- Canada -- Congresses | Older people -- Government policy -- Canada -- Congresses | Personnes âgées -- Canada -- Conditions sociales -- Congrès | Vieillissement -- Aspect social -- Canada -- Congrès | Personnes âgées -- Politique gouvernementale -- Canada | Canada -- Social policy -- Congresses | Canada -- Population -- Congresses | Canada -- Politique sociale -- Congrès | Canada -- Population -- CongrèsDDC classification: 305.260971 LOC classification: HQ1064.C2 | O94 2000Online resources: Table of contents only | WorldCat details
Contents:
TOC FOREWORD ; PREFACE ; 1. Population and Politics: Voodoo Demography, Population Ageing, and Social Policy ; 2. Three Demographic Stories: Apocalyptic, Opportunistic, and Realistic OR Chicken Little's, Nest Eggies, and Humpty Dumpties ; 3. Alarmist Economics and Women's Pensions: A Case of Semanticide ; 4. Population Ageing and Hospital Days: Will There Be a Problem? ; 5. What Did You Ever Do for Me?: Intergenerational Linkages in a Restructuring Canada ; 6. Ageing Families: Have Current changes and Challenges been Oversold? ; 7. Intergenerational Care Giving: How Apocalyptic and Dominant Demographies Frame the Questions and Shape the Answers ; 8. The Refilled 'Nest': Debunking the Myth of Families-in-Crisis
Summary: These critical perspectives on population ageing take issue with the demographic determinism (apocalyptic demography) whereby population ageing, specifically the ageing population bulge known as the baby boomers, is viewed as a severe social problem in the making.
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Papers from a conference entitled The overselling of population aging: apocalyptic demography and intergenerational challenges, held in May 1998 at Simon Fraser University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC FOREWORD ; PREFACE ; 1. Population and Politics: Voodoo Demography, Population Ageing, and Social Policy ; 2. Three Demographic Stories: Apocalyptic, Opportunistic, and Realistic OR Chicken Little's, Nest Eggies, and Humpty Dumpties ; 3. Alarmist Economics and Women's Pensions: A Case of Semanticide ; 4. Population Ageing and Hospital Days: Will There Be a Problem? ; 5. What Did You Ever Do for Me?: Intergenerational Linkages in a Restructuring Canada ; 6. Ageing Families: Have Current changes and Challenges been Oversold? ; 7. Intergenerational Care Giving: How Apocalyptic and Dominant Demographies Frame the Questions and Shape the Answers ; 8. The Refilled 'Nest': Debunking the Myth of Families-in-Crisis

These critical perspectives on population ageing take issue with the demographic determinism (apocalyptic demography) whereby population ageing, specifically the ageing population bulge known as the baby boomers, is viewed as a severe social problem in the making.

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