The overselling of population aging :  apocalyptic demography, intergenerational challenges, and social policy / 
edited by Ellen M. Gee ; Gloria M. Gutman 
 - Ontario  Oxford University Press  2000 
 - ix, 154 p. :  gràf., taules ;  23 cm. 
 - (The Studies in Canadian Population) .
<br/><br/> Papers de la conferència The overselling of population aging: apocalyptic demography and intergenerational challenges, realizada en mayo de 1998 a la Simon Fraser University.  Foreword / Lillian Zimmerman -- Introduction / Ellen M. Gee and Gloria M. Gutman -- 1. Population and Politics: Voodoo Demography, Population Aging, and Social Policy / Ellen M. Gee -- 2. Population Aging and Hospital Days: Will There Be a Problem? / Yves Carriere -- 3. Aging Families: Have Current Changes and Challenges Been 'Oversold'? / Carolyn J. Rosenthal -- 4. Intergenerational Caregiving: How Apocalyptic and Dominant Demographies Frame the Questions and Shape the Answers / Anne Martin-Matthews -- 5. The Refilled 'Nest': Debunking the Myth of Families in Crisis / Barbara A. Mitchell -- 6. Apocalyptic, Opportunistic, and Realistic Demographic Discourse: Retirement Income and Social Policy or Chicken Littles, Nest-Eggies, and Humpty Dumpties / Michael J. Prince -- 7. Alarmist Economics and Women's Pensions; A Case of 'Semanticide' / Lynn McDonald -- 8. 'What Did You Ever Do for Me?': Intergenerational Linkages in a Restructuring Canada / Susan A. McDaniel. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195414659 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Envelliment--Condicions socials--Canadà--Congressos<br/>Envelliment--Aspectes socials--Canadà--Congressos<br/>Política governamental
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>CANADÁ<br/>GENERACIONES<br/>PROTECCIÓN SOCIAL<br/>SOLIDARIDAD FAMILIAR<br/>SISTEMAS DE JUBILACIÓN<br/>POLÍTICA SOCIAL<br/>ESTRUCTURAS FAMILIARES<br/>ENVEJECIMIENTO DE LA POBLACIÓN
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>305.26