At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America - Hardcover
by Stacy Torres
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520288621ISBN-10:520288629UPC:9780520288621Book Category:Social Science, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Sociology, Demography, Life StagesBook Topic:Urban, Later YearsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.5609Product ID:SC419EPYP9
At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America
Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America. To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrification, financial struggles, the accumulated losses of neighbors, friends, and family, and other...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520288621ISBN-10:520288629UPC:9780520288621Book Category:Social Science, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Sociology, Demography, Life StagesBook Topic:Urban, Later YearsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.5609Product ID:SC419EPYP9
Stacy Torres is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. A proud first-generation college graduate, she grew up in New York City.
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