Aging nation; the economics and politics of growing older in America. (reprint, 2006).

9780801888649

Aging nation; the economics and politics of growing older in America. (reprint, 2006)

Schulz, James H. and Robert H. Binstock.

Johns Hopkins U. Press

2008

283 pages

$25.00

Paperback

HQ1063

Schulz (economics, emeritus, Brandeis University) and Binstock (aging, health, and society, Case Western Reserve University) acknowledge that there is considerable cause for concern about the impending retirement of some 76 million baby boomers in a period of huge government deficits, but insist that a demographic tsunami is not inevitable. They analyze the nation's evolving private and public policies, and consider issues such as poverty among older people, rejoining the workforce after retirement, Social Security and healthcare reform, and the rise of the elderly as a political force.

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