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041 _aeng
050 0 0 _aHQ1064.C2
_bO94 2000
082 0 4 _a305.260971
_bOVE 2000
245 0 4 _aThe overselling of population aging :
_bapocalyptic demography, intergenerational challenges, and social policy /
_cedited by Ellen M. Gee and Gloria M. Gutman.
260 _aDon Mills, Ont. ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2000.
300 _aix, 154 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
440 4 _aThe studies in Canadian population
_917120
500 _aPapers from a conference entitled The overselling of population aging: apocalyptic demography and intergenerational challenges, held in May 1998 at Simon Fraser University.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _tTOC
_aFOREWORD ; 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
520 _aThese 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.
526 _aMPRHGD
590 _aRokon Mahamud
650 0 _aOlder people
_zCanada
_xSocial conditions
_vCongresses.
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650 0 _aAging
_xSocial aspects
_zCanada
_vCongresses.
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650 0 _aOlder people
_xGovernment policy
_zCanada
_vCongresses.
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650 6 _aPersonnes âgées
_zCanada
_xConditions sociales
_vCongrès.
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650 6 _aVieillissement
_xAspect social
_zCanada
_vCongrès.
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650 6 _aPersonnes âgées
_xPolitique gouvernementale
_zCanada.
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651 0 _aCanada
_xSocial policy
_vCongresses.
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651 0 _aCanada
_xPopulation
_vCongresses.
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651 6 _aCanada
_xPolitique sociale
_vCongrès.
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651 6 _aCanada
_xPopulation
_vCongrès.
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700 1 _aGee, Ellen Margaret Thomas,
_d1950-
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700 1 _aGutman, Gloria M.
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
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856 4 2 _3WorldCat details
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