Download or read book Aging and the Life Course written by Jill S. Quadagno and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking text is the first to take a life course perspective, examining the relationship between the quality of one's life in old age and one's experiences, earlier choices, opportunities, and constraints. The text gives students a broad background for understanding current policy debates through a distinctive chapter entitled "Old Age and the Welfare State" (Chapter 11) and through boxed essays in every chapter called "An Issue for Public Policy." Each chapter also includes a box called "In Their Own Words" that allows older people to describe their own experiences. In addition, coverage of race, class, gender, and culture is integrated throughout and featured in the "Diversity in the Aging Experience" sections.