...This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages—such as sixteen, twenty-one, and sixty-five—have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. From the colonial period to the present, Americans have relied...

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... there is such variability in old age. Achenbaum begins in colonial America, showing that some older Americans were revered, but others fared poorly if they fell victim to disease, injury, or inability to work. Through the antebellum era, chronological elderliness itself was rarely the reason that older Americans were...

... and administration multiculturalism Allison Anne demography fertility old age inequality immigration blended society welfare Demography is the study of population, the ebbs and flows formed by the life courses of individuals. ¹ Today, Japan is undergoing a major demographic transformation marked...