The long baby boom an optimistic vision for a graying generation /
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10363111 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Prologue
- The baby boom: the self-involved glacier
- The social safety net for older Americans: the expensive legacy of the New Deal
- Living to work: boomers, retirement, and the knowledge economy
- Healthy aging: enabling a longer, more active life
- Encouraging work in later life: what can be done?
- Medicare: the Mount Everest of entitlements
- Social security reform: grasping the third rail
- What we need to do
- What baby boomers should do for themselves
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index.