Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging

by Margaret Cruikshank

Book Overview

Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness and the other social roles of the elderly,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742565947
• ISBN13: 9780742565944
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Being Old

If presenting unvarnished truth appears to be "sometimes overly strident", so be it. Ageism is indeed rampant unless one happens to be a white male political or corporate figure, and this book gives one the data that supports this truth.As a physician, I find the chapter "Overmedicating Old Americans" extremely important and timely, and I feel that this book can be easily read by the general public and should be taken very seriously by Health Care and Social Service professionals.