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Families have become an increasingly important source of support for the elderly, and gerontologists are directing more and more attention to older adults and their families. This bibliography reviews the most significant works on families and aging published within the past ten years. Jean Coyle has selected and annotated nearly 800 books, articles, films, dissertations, and government documents. The detailed annotations summarize and evaluate the significance and usefulness of each item, and the comprehensive author and subject indexes make this volume a valuable reference tool.
A thoughtful introduction surveys the most noteworthy research on families and aging done in the last decade. This is followed by eleven chapters, that address such topics as widowhood, intergenerational relationships, family caregiving, and the role of older adults in ethnic and minority families. Gerontologists, social workers, and all those interested in families and aging will find this guide an indispensable source of information.
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Series Foreword by Erdman B. Palmore
Preface
Introduction
Middle-aged Families
Singlehood
Older Couples
Widowhood
Grandparents
Adult Children
Intergenerational Relationships
Family Caregiving
Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
Living Arrangements of Older Persons
General
Author Index
Subject Index
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JEAN M. COYLE is President of Jean Coyle Associates, a gerontological consulting firm in Alexandria, Virginia. She founded the first academic gerontology program in the state of Louisiana in 1976 and has taught at universities throughout the United States. She has been Secretary of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, National President of Sigma Phi Omega gerontology honor society, and a founder and president of the Southwest Society on Aging. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the author of
Women and Aging: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (1989) and
Families and Aging: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (1991), both published by Greenwood Press.
