Treatment Of The Aged

Associated Documents (3)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Maxwell, Robert J.Information and esteem: cultural considerations in the treatment of the aged
Glascock, Anthony P.Social asset or social burden: treatment of the aged in non-industrial societies
Glascock, Anthony P.The myth of the golden isle: old age in pre-industrial societies

Associated Hypotheses (6)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Maxwell, Robert J."The esteem in which the aged are held in a given society varies directly with the degree of control they maintain over the society's informational resources" (381).
Glascock, Anthony P."The majority of the societies reported on in the ethnographic record will have explicit ways of treating old persons" (23).
Glascock, Anthony P."If explicit treatment of the aged can be determined from ethnographic data, these treatments should cluster into a limited number of treatment categories" (23).
Glascock, Anthony P."If treatment categories exist, then their distribution should be equal" (24).
Glascock, Anthony P."A significant number of the combination supportive/non-supportive treatment will be in the intact/decrepit grouping" (27).
Glascock, Anthony P.Treatment of the elderly will be related to climate, subsistence strategy, social stratification, and belief in active high gods (408).

Associated OCMs

  1. status and treatment of the aged