The New Neighborhood Senior Center : : Redefining Social and Service Roles for the Baby Boom Generation /

The New Neighborhood Senior Center : : Redefining Social and Service Roles for the Baby Boom Generation / / Joyce Weil.

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In 2011, seven thousand American "baby boomers" (those born between 1946 and 1964) turned sixty-five daily. As this largest U.S. generation ages, cities, municipalities, and governments at every level must grapple with the allocation of resources and funding for maintaining the quality of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Weil, Joyce,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Shuttered
  • 1. The History of Senior Centers: The Rise of the Center Movement and How Centers Form Spatial Identity
  • 2. The Case of the Center before Shuttering: The Daily Life of the Center
  • 3. Reconstructing Shuttering in a Larger Social Context: Political and Media Accounts
  • 4. The Case of the Center as It Is Shuttered: Larger Changes Hit the Center
  • 5. The Organizational Embeddedness of Capital: Being Saved and Being Sunk
  • 6. Poor Centers: The Politics of Age and Class in the Neighborhood Context
  • 7. Reconceptualizing Centers: The Baby Boomers and Their Perceived Needs
  • 8. Beyond Rebranding: Building a Sustainable Core
  • Appendix A: Self-Reflection: My Experience in the Field
  • Appendix B: Methods
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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