Older People

441 Pages·1953·72.747 MB·English

by  Robert James, Ruth Albrecht Havighurst

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Havighurst, Robert James, 1900-
New York, Longmans, Green, 1953.
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OLDER
PEOPLE
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OLDER
PEOPLE
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ROBERT HAVIGHURST RUTH ALBRECHT
Committee on Human Development The University of Chicago
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
NEW YORK ' LONDON • TORONTO • 1953
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OLDER PEOPLE
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PREFACE
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This book consists of two parts. Part is a general over
view of the conditions of life for older people in the United
States. This section of the book is organized around the spe
cial problems of people as they grow old. It is an introduc
tion to social gerontology.
To some readers this book will seem too optimistic, with
its reports of the happiness and economic security of the
majority of older people. But the writers have reported what
they saw, as they studied a cross-section of America's elders.
The old-age group is as much to be envied as to be pitied.
Old age has its proper and acceptable fruits, and the aver
age person gathers and enjoys a fair share of these as he
grows older.