Two Patterns of Living Arrangements for Aging Windows.

• Main Author: Tannenbaum, Ruth.
• Other Authors: (Supervisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 1958
• Subjects: Social Work.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=111496

Studies of population trends in the Western world over the past fifty years indicate that the aged, that is, those persons over 65 years, have increased, as a group, both relatively and absolutely. This, in turn, has created a shift in the balance between dependants, i.e., those under 20 and those over 65, to the bread-winners, throwing a heavier burden on the earning population. These trends have had wide ramifications in our economic and social institutions, and have made research and planning imperative in the field of geriatrics.