City of Green Benches : : Growing Old in a New Downtown / / Maria Vesperi.
St. Petersburg, Florida, has become virtually synonymous with retirement and old age. The city of green benches once courted its elderly population; now, however, it seeks to rejuvenate its image, to attract the young through urban revitalization. In this humane and sensitive book, Maria Vesperi, an...
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Vesperi, Maria, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut City of Green Benches : Growing Old in a New Downtown / Maria Vesperi. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1986 1 online resource (176 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- About the Title of This Book -- Introduction -- PART ONE. The Apperception of Old Age -- 1. City of Green Benches -- 2. Reciprocity -- 3. Recognition -- PART TWO. Social Policy and the Reality of Aging -- 4. Housing -- 5. Neighborly Senior Services -- 6. Mental Health Care -- Conclusion: Intelligere est pati -- Afterword to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star St. Petersburg, Florida, has become virtually synonymous with retirement and old age. The city of green benches once courted its elderly population; now, however, it seeks to rejuvenate its image, to attract the young through urban revitalization. In this humane and sensitive book, Maria Vesperi, an anthropologist and journalist, looks at the realities of being old and poor in the rapidly changing downtown of St. Petersburg. Vesperi provides a complete and carefully observed picture of the elderly: the conditions of their_ lives, representative social programs created to provide for them, and their interaction with the city around them. The life of the old in St. Petersburg, she notes, is characterized by a profound contradiction between how the elderly see themselves and how they are viewed by the community-a contradiction that speaks of the way cultural stereotypes about aging are transmitted to all older Americans. As a culture, Vesperi maintains, we view the old as an isolated segment of humanity without a living future or even an ongoing present. She seeks to understand the ways in which the old respond to the distorted image that they meet with every day, not only in their relations with individuals but in their dealings with the institutions set up specifically to care for them. Her study of St. Petersburg explores questions that are significant throughout the United States: How did our rigid cultural assumptions about old age develop, and how can we change them? Why do so many gerontologists, public officials, and social workers tacitly subscribe to that misconception? How does it inform the development and operation of public programs for the elderly? Enlivened by the voices of the old people of St. Petersburg and enriched with photographs by Ricardo Ferro, this moving book is important reading for anyone concerned with the life of the elderly in America. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Aging. Anthropology. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501717277 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501717277 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501717277/original |
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