Prospects for Senior Power.
This article offers a behavior-social movement perspective on factors that might facilitate or impede “senior power,” a political movement and-or voting bloc, which, thus far, has been a latent force. The likely scenario for senior power’s emergence would be major threats to Social Security and Medi...
| Publicado en: | Generations Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 65 - 73 |
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American Society on Aging
Winter2018/2019
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