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WRITERS OFTEN USE THE MYTHS and images of youth and age' that are commonplace in descriptions of human development to describe historical circumstances; for more than two centuries, this language of aging has been invoked to interpret American history.
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gerontic dependency ratio, linear life plan, societal aging, other dependent groups, retirement norms, aging society, productive participation, relative economic status
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United States, New York, Census Bureau, World War, Latin America, Bureau of the Census, Government Printing Office, Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, New England Journal of Medicine, Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rico, University of Chicago Press, Andrew Achenbaum, Fernando Torres-Gil, Academic Press, Ann Arbor, Oliver Shay, Samuel Preston, Scientific American, University of Michigan, National Council, Natural Death, American Sociological Review, Centuries of Childhood, Daniel Callahan
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