Social asset or social burden: treatment of the aged in non-industrial societies

Dimensions: Aging, Culture, and Health • Praeger • New York, NY • Published In • Pages: 13-31 •
By Glascock, Anthony P., Feinman, Susan L.

Hypothesis

"If explicit treatment of the aged can be determined from ethnographic data, these treatments should cluster into a limited number of treatment categories" (23).

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
No Formal TestSupportedUNKNOWNUNKNOWNUNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Treatment Of The AgedDependentStatus And Treatment Of The Aged