The Shady Side of Fifty

Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Lisa Dillon ISBN: 9780773578494
Publisher: MQUP Publication: March 19, 2008
Imprint: MQUP Language: English
Author: Lisa Dillon
ISBN: 9780773578494
Publisher: MQUP
Publication: March 19, 2008
Imprint: MQUP
Language: English
Dillon uses the census as both a qualitative document and a source of quantitative data and also draws on diaries and letters to show how subtle shifts in the living arrangements of the elderly, decreasing intergenerational interdependence, and the advent of retirement and the empty nest changed the trajectory of old age during 1870-1901. The Shady Side of Fifty analyses these social shifts to reveal two different kinds of age anxiety: facing a new decade and dealing with extreme old age.
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Dillon uses the census as both a qualitative document and a source of quantitative data and also draws on diaries and letters to show how subtle shifts in the living arrangements of the elderly, decreasing intergenerational interdependence, and the advent of retirement and the empty nest changed the trajectory of old age during 1870-1901. The Shady Side of Fifty analyses these social shifts to reveal two different kinds of age anxiety: facing a new decade and dealing with extreme old age.

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