The new politics of old age policy / edited by Robert B. Hudson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contemporary challenges to age-based policy / Robert B. Hudson -- A normative defense of universal age-based public policy / Martha B. Holstein -- What justice requires : a normative foundation for U.S. pension reform / John Myles -- Decreasing welfare, increasing old age inequality : whose responsibility is it? / Madonna Harrington Meyer -- Social Security and the paradoxes of welfare state conservatism / Steven M. Teles -- When old age begins : implications for health, work, and retirement / Angela M. O'Rand -- Minority workers and pathways to retirement / Chenoa A. Flippen -- The oldest old and a long-lived society : challenges for public policy / Judith G. Gonyea -- Reframing Social Security : cures worse than the disease / Pamela Herd and Eric R. Kingson -- Sustaining Medicare as an age-related program / Marilyn Moon -- The politics of aging within Medicaid / Colleen M. Grogan -- The changing face of senior housing / Jon Pynoos and Christy M. Nishita -- The contemporary politics of old age policies / Robert H. Binstock -- Using local tax levies to fund programs for older people : good politics and good policy? / Robert Applebaum ... [et al.].