: Social Adjustment in Old Age . Otto Pollak.

Social Adjustment in Old Age: A Research Planning Report

This article is a reprint of a planning report prepared by the Social Science Research Council in 1948. It represents one of the first earliest reports on the implications of the changing demographic structure of society in the United

Old-age Vulnerability in Indonesia: A Longitudinal Social Network Approach

This paper is concerned with three related questions: How can vulnerable older people in a contemporary developing society be identified? What are the processes leading to their vulnerability? What is the role of older people’s social networks in determining vulnerability or security? Addressing these questions in full requires consideration of a range of different vulnerabilities and pathways ...

Stress, social relations, and old age mortality in Taiwan.

The research analyzed the relationships among stress, social relations, and mortality in a probability sample of 4,049 Taiwanese adults, aged 60 and over. The baseline survey was conducted in 1989 and the survival status of the respondents was ascertained during the subsequent 4 years. Death of a spouse or a child was found to increase the risk of dying directly and indirectly, whereas major fi...

The Shift in Social Conception of Old Age:

The Social Medicine of Old Age in Northern Ireland

THERE must be few people who do not have some appreciation of the practical implications of the increasing proportion of old people in our population, because the medical and social problems arising from this trend have been the subjects of nmaniy inquiries and much literary effort in recent years. As doctors, whether in hospital or in general practice, we have more reason than most to encounte...