Senior Centers in America - Krout, John A.
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Senior centers are an important feature of the community-based support system of the elderly that have generally been neglected and sometimes misunderstood by gerontological researchers. This book describes, integrates, analyzes, and draws conclusions from the research that is available and brings into focus the research questions that should be addressed in the future. The approach is eclectic and holistic in that many different facets of senior centers and their use are woven together to answer questions such as: what are senior centers, what do they do, how do they do it, and what roles do…mehr

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Senior centers are an important feature of the community-based support system of the elderly that have generally been neglected and sometimes misunderstood by gerontological researchers. This book describes, integrates, analyzes, and draws conclusions from the research that is available and brings into focus the research questions that should be addressed in the future. The approach is eclectic and holistic in that many different facets of senior centers and their use are woven together to answer questions such as: what are senior centers, what do they do, how do they do it, and what roles do they play in the lives of the elderly and the aging services network.
Autorenporträt
JOHN A. KROUT is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Fredonia. He wrote The Rural Elderly and The Aged in Rural America (Greenwood Press, 1983, 1986). Krout has published numerous articles on senior centers in the International Journal of Aging and Human Development , The Gerontologist, Research on Aging, and the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, among others. He is secretary of the Delegate Council of the National Center on the Rural Aging and a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.