Age through Ethnic Lenses: Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society

This book is a valuable resource for academicians, researchers, and service professionals, and policy-makers. It provides insights and perspectives that take us away from viewing ageing and elderly care in monolithic or homogenous ways. — Essie Manuel Rutledge, Western Illinois University

Recommended to all those readers who are interested in learning more about other cultures but may not know where to begin.

The editor and her colleagues offer us a book of the new millennium in which the United States has clearly become a mosaic of diverse cultures and a country with major immigrant inflows. This early in the twenty-first century it is hard to predict how all aspects of American culture, including attitudes and care provided to older persons, will be affected by these new, diverse ethnic cultures. Thankfully, Age through Ethnic Lenses increases our consciousness of the current requirements of these groups and possible programs and policies to meet them. — Donald E. Gelfand, Wayne State University