2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Jan 02, 2025  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

SOCI 531 - Aging and Social Policy


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

An advanced survey of social and public policy issues affecting the elderly. Subjects considered are age discrimination, public benefit programs for the elderly, voluntary and involuntary institutionalization, and a variety of political and informal issues confronting elderly individuals and society. The course provides intensive investigations of ongoing and emerging issues resulting from the growth in the number of elderly people. Issues will be examined for various social, professional and personal implications.