Publications

Publications by Laura Katz Olson

Books

Elder Care Journey: A View from the Front Lines (Albany, New York: SUNY Press). The Politics of Medicaid (New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).

The Handbook of Long-Term Care Administration and Policy, edited with Cynthia Mara(Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2008).

The  Not  So  Golden  Years:  Caring Labor,  the  Frail  Elderly and  the  Long-Term  Care  Business  Enterprise (Boulder, Colorado: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Co., 2003).

Age Through Ethnic Lenses: Caring for the Elderly in a Multi-Cultural Society, ed., Boulder, Colorado: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Co., 2001).

The Graying of the World:  Who Will Care for the Frail Elderly? (ed.), (Binghamton, N.Y.:  Haworth Press, Inc., 1994).

Public Policy and Aging:  The Politics of Growing Old in America, edited with William Browne, Central Michigan University (Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1983).

The Political Economy of Aging:  The State, Private Power, and Social Welfare (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982), nominated for the 1982 Washington Monthly 13th Annual Book Award.
 

Edited Journals

Editor, Special Issue, The Politics and Policies of Caring in an Age of Retrenchment, Part 2,  Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, V. 23, No. 2 (Harrisburg, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, Fall 2001).

Editor, Special Issue, The Politics and Policies of Caring in an Age of Retrenchment, Part 1,  Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, V. 22, No. 4 (Harrisburg, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, Spring 2000).