Aging in the Past |
PREFACE |
CONTRIBUTORS |
PART ONE INTRODUCTION |
One Necessary Knowledge: Age and Aging in the Societies of the Past |
• | Why Do People Have to Know About Aging in the Past? |
• | The Historical Demography of Aging |
• | The Aging of National Populations |
• | The Secular Shift in Aging |
• | Relative Historical Constancy in Aging Before the Secular Shift |
• | Duration of Life at Every Age and Age Composition Historically Considered: The Rectangular Survival Curve |
• | Aging by Locality and by Social Group |
• | Experiential Measures in the Historical Demography of Aging |
• | Aging in France and England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: an Illustrative Example |
The Secular Shift in Aging: Its General Historical Position and its Outcomes |
• | The Emergence of the Third Age |
• | Climacteric in the Middle of the Twentieth Century |
• | Age Trajectories Over the Secular Shift in the West and in Some Countries of East |
• | Conclusion: Processional Knowledge |
• | Appendix: Indicators for Comparison of Longevity |
• | References |
PART TWO LIVING ARRANGEMENTS |
Two Elderly Persons and Members of Their Households in England and Wales from Preindustrial Times to the Present |
Three The Elderly in the Bosom of the Family: La Famille Souche and Hardship Reincorporation |
Four Household Systems and the Lives of the Old in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hungary |
Five Migration in the Later Years of Life in Traditional Europe |
Six Older Lives on the Frontier: the Residential Patterns of the Older Population of Texas, 1850-1910 |
Seven A Home of One's Own: Aging and Home Ownership in the United States in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century |
PART THREE WIDOWHOOD |
Eight The Impact of Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Italy |
Nine The Demography of Widowhood in Preindustrial New Hampshire |
Ten Transition to Widowhood and Family Support Systems in the Twentieth Century, Northeastern United States |
PART FOUR RETIREMENT AND MORTALITY |
Eleven The Impact of Aging on the Employment of Men in American Working-Class Communities at the End of the Nineteenth Century |
Twelve Trends in Old Age Mortality in the United States, 1900-1935: Evidence from Railroad Pensions |
PART FIVE CONCLUSION |
Thirteen Toward a Historical Demography of Aging |
Notes |
INDEX |