...Welfare states within the traditional OECD area arranged their pension systems after 1945 so that complete exit from paid employment during an ever-longer retirement period became a universal entitlement. The institutionalization of old-age pensions in the OECD area resulted from an expansion...

... of claimants—the validity of these budgetary assertions are questionable and discussed below. age Disability Insurance DI Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance OASDI Old Age and Survivors Insurance OASI reform Social Security Act Social Security Administration SSA Social Security Trust Fund...

.... It argues that medicine puts medical considerations first, and the rest nowhere. The chapter also displays the author's insights that making lives meaningful in old age requires more imagination than making them safe does, and more than the medical profession currently possesses. It mentions that advances...

... Spain changes in old age pension system of Alessie R Belloni M Boldrin M Börsch Supan A Garcia Pérez J I Gruber J Hairault J O Langot F Levine P B Peracchi F Samwick A A Sánchez Martin A R Sopraseuth T Wise D A timelines of reforms in Belgium Cairó Blanco I Sánchez A R Conde Ruiz J I...

... Thetis Achilles Cinyras Ovid Propertius Cynthia acrostics and anagrams Callimachus Catullus Tibullus Horace genethliacon old age Maecenas The celebration of Steve’s sixty-fifth birthday seems to be an appropriate occasion to say something about the celebration of Cynthia’s birthday...

...Oxford University Press The majority of chapters in this book demonstrate clinical aspects of various aspects of old age psychiatry. These accounts tend to focus only on the viewpoints of the healthcare professionals involved in the investigation, diagnosis, and management of the condition...

...The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, Third Edition, has been thoroughly updated to keep pace with the developments that have taken place in old age psychiatry since publication of the Second Edition in 2013, including the publication of the DSM-5/ICD-11 classification criteria. The Third...

...Jerome and Qohelet Rabbah are again the starting-point for reading Qohelet against the backdrop of Israel’s own histories, in the poem of 12:1-7. Instead of the usual allegory of the body as a vehicle for anxiety over old age and death, this chapter builds on the studies of Israel’s city-laments...

...-associated diseases may result in failures to take into consideration health conditions that are critical to cognitive functioning, sometimes selectively, and this may be particularly true in the study of old age. Different approaches to the definition of health and disease are discussed, followed...

...This chapter brings together some of the issues which have run through the book: the difficulty the law has in dealing with older people who are both vulnerable to exploitation and yet so easily treated paternalistically. It is argued that emphasising and promoting independence as a goal in old age...

... David nobility care caring work category Slack Paul gender work class old-age care poverty entitlement vulnerability In the summer of 1799, the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus traveled through Sweden. Because the harvest the year before had been poor, there was a general dearth of grain...

... the purpose of the category of “gender” for feminist theory, after important debates have questioned its usefulness. Other essays include reflection on the meaning of being at home and the need for privacy in old age residencies. Aspects of the experience of women and girls that have received little attention...

...Cultural values, beliefs, and practices around old age affect how individuals make sense of their aging experiences. Qualitative data were captured through 12 vignette-based focus group discussion and 18 semi-structured interviews with older Yoruba people and analyzed with a framework guided...

...In the final days of the Pension Bureau, old age was itself considered an infirmity eligible for pensions. The age and service pension system paved the way for the creation of the modern American welfare state via the Social Security Act of 1935. Though many attribute the Social Security Act’s...

... “The American Scholar” and “Self-Reliance,” position old age as the opponent of individualism and independence, thus setting the terms for neoliberal notions of successful aging. Later in his career, in essays such as “Circles,” Emerson seeks to reconcile himself with the phenomenon of aging, often fantasizing...

... Chinese Family Development Report 2015 National Health and Family Planning Commission 2015 civil society demographic changes Human Development Report of China UNDP China 2013 industrialization Lei X migration old age services social care services UN United Nations urbanization health Howell...

... decline. This article discusses the essayist’s pervasive references to his old age as a way to relate to oneself, the other, the world, and to his literary endeavor. The portrait of the writer as a man growing old is embedded in the systems of knowledge of the day, yet Montaigne’s pragmatic reflections...

.... This chapter examines the saving behavior of households in Germany. The findings reveal extraordinarily stable and sound levels of saving. Germans save regularly, in a manner that is planned, and often with a clearly defined purpose in mind. The result also indicates that precaution and old-age provision...

... of pathological ageing of the brain; and (3) mental health problems as a result of pathological developmental processes that started earlier in life. We discuss practical implications of a lifespan approach to maladaptive behaviour and psychopathology in old age. clinical geropsychology lifespan perspective...

... of a human life—from infancy, through adulthood, old age and death—to consider some of the ways in which writers emerge from, live in, shape, conceptualize, and resist the workings of time upon human life. beginnings and timeliness in early philosophical writings child ren and childhood infancy moments...