TY - BOOK AU - Lockhart, C. TI - Protecting the elderly: how culture shapes social policy SN - 0-271-02289-2 AV - HV 1451 .L65 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Pennsylvania PB - Pennyslvania State University Press KW - Aged|Culture|Public Policy N1 - Describes how different societies respond to problems experienced in the matter of public protection for the elderly and reasons for their response. Discusses the basic principles of grid-group theory, which is an approach that explains how individuals obtain a limited variety of answers to central social questions like how the world works. This theory is used to assist in the understanding of making decisions in relation to social policy ER -