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The Family Life of Old People by Peter Townsend - Pelican, 1963


Title: The Family Life of Old People
Author: Peter Townsend
Publisher: Pelican Books
Publication Date: 1963
Format: Softcover
Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear, inscription and tanned pages.

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Reader's note

A 1963 Pelican edition of The Family Life of Old People by Peter Townsend. How do old people spend their declining years? Whom do they see and how often? How many of them are miserable or poverty-stricken? Peter Townsend gives here the first detailed answer to these questions by presenting, sympathetically and vividly, the results of his interviews with more than two hundred old people in Bethnal Green. He finds that the lot of the aged is perhaps less hard than it once was, and that family obligations are taken more seriously than before. But he also gives first-hand evidence of many shortcomings in the present social system and these urgently call for attention.