Aging in the Past

  PREFACE
  CONTRIBUTORS

 collapse sectionPART ONE  INTRODUCTION
 collapse sectionOne  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
 expand sectionThe 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

 collapse sectionPART TWO  LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
 expand sectionTwo  Elderly Persons and Members of Their Households in England and Wales from Preindustrial Times to the Present
 expand sectionThree  The Elderly in the Bosom of the Family: La Famille Souche and Hardship Reincorporation
 expand sectionFour  Household Systems and the Lives of the Old in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hungary
 expand sectionFive  Migration in the Later Years of Life in Traditional Europe
 expand sectionSix  Older Lives on the Frontier: the Residential Patterns of the Older Population of Texas, 1850-1910
 expand sectionSeven  A Home of One's Own: Aging and Home Ownership in the United States in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

 collapse sectionPART THREE  WIDOWHOOD
 expand sectionEight  The Impact of Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Italy
 expand sectionNine  The Demography of Widowhood in Preindustrial New Hampshire
 expand sectionTen  Transition to Widowhood and Family Support Systems in the Twentieth Century, Northeastern United States

 collapse sectionPART FOUR  RETIREMENT AND MORTALITY
 expand sectionEleven  The Impact of Aging on the Employment of Men in American Working-Class Communities at the End of the Nineteenth Century
 expand sectionTwelve  Trends in Old Age Mortality in the United States, 1900-1935: Evidence from Railroad Pensions

 collapse sectionPART FIVE  CONCLUSION
 expand sectionThirteen  Toward a Historical Demography of Aging

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionINDEX

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