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Publication Date: September 1956
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Joseph S. Winston
Research Area: Population and demographics; Social conditions
Keywords: Elderly; Social Problems; Discrimination; Culture
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author discusses strategies for countering negative perceptions of elderly people in modern culture. The problem should be addressed in collaboration with elderly themselves, the author argues. He examines common categories of negative perceptions of the elderly, such as assumptions that they are an economic libaility, incapable of personal growth, in need of social isolation, and other assumptions.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, ed. by Sanford Sherman, v.33, no.1, Fall 1956, p.67-72.