Titlebook: Varieties of Aging; George L. Maddox,M. Powell Lawton Book 1988 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988 aging.gerontology.internal m

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Differential Gerontology and the Stratified Life Course: Conceptual and Methodological Issueshe premise that age is a centrally important attribute if we wish to understand the nature of other human characteristics, whether physiological, psychological, or social. It has even been argued that age is probably the single most important predictor of other characteristics:

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A Different Perspective on Health and Health Services Utilizationhe subject supports their call (Havlik et al., 1987). These observations about heterogeneity (1) are consistent with both theory and research, (2) suggest a number of methodological problems, and (3) have important implications for public policy. We will illustrate all three points, devoting a separate section of this chapter to each.

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Insuring Long-Term Carehome services, they find, often to their surprise and dismay, that long-term care is not covered to any significant extent by Medicare or private insurance. Frequently nursing home patients must use their entire life savings to pay for their care, and once totally impoverished, they must depend on Medicaid, a severely means-tested welfare program.

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The Changing and Heterogeneous Nature of Aging and Longevity: A Social and Biomedical Perspectiveus, functioning, and what has become termed “active life expectancy.” While this is a noble goal, it assumes that we are a homogeneous group of Americans keeping pace with one another in this lofty achievement. It ignores the great heterogeneity found in the U.S. population with regard to life expectancy and conditions related to it.