Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I'm 84?

Download or read book Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I'm 84? written by Doris Francis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984-04-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many ethnographic monographs are praise-worthy on conceptual and methodological grounds; some combine solid contributions to knowledge with trenchant social-policy recommendations; a few are eminently readable. This work... is excellent on all three counts. For academic libraries at all levels and public libraries." -- Choice A compelling and touching portrait of the problems of growing old. This pioneering study compares the ways two groups have adapted to, and coped with, being aged in contemporary urban society.