TY - BOOK AU - Abramson,Corey M. TI - The end game: how inequality shapes our final years SN - 9780674286801 AV - HQ1064.U5 A223 2015 U1 - 305.260973 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press KW - Older people KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - Aging KW - Social aspects KW - Ageism KW - Discrimination KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Discrimination & Race Relations KW - bisacsh KW - Minority Studies KW - Sociology KW - General KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Old Is a Different Animal Altogether": The Shared Predicaments of the End Game -- The Uneven Playing Field: Disparate Contexts and Resources in Old Age -- Game-Day Strategies: How Prior Experiences Shape Cultural Strategies in the Present -- Team Dynamics: The Meanings of Social Ties -- Conclusion: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years N2 - "Senior citizens face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do disadvantages accumulated over a lifetime make the final years especially difficult for some people? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge? Corey Abramson investigates whether lifelong inequality structures the lives of the elderly"-- UR - https://ezp.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1c84dx9 ER -