Joyce Weil

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As the generation of baby boomers ages, cities, municipalities, and governments must grapple with the allocation of resources and funding for maintaining the quality of life, health, and standard of living for an aging population. Joyce Weil uses ethnographic methods to examine a working-class senior centre in Queens, New York. She explores the ways in which social structure directly affects the lives of older Americans and traces the role of political, social, and economic institutions and neighborhood processes in the decision to close such centres throughout New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 126mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9780813562940
• ISBN-10: 0813562945
• Artikelnr.: 40842678

Autorenporträt

Weil, Joyce

Inhaltsangabe

List of 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 Neighborhood
Context
7          Reconceptualizing Centers: The Baby Boomers and Their Perceived
Needs
8          Beyond Rebranding: Using Policy to Building a Sustainable Core
Appendix A: Self-reflection: My Experience in the Field
Appendix B: Methods
Notes
References
Index