1st Edition
Advancing Aging Policy as the 21st Century Begins
232 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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By the end of the current decade, many baby boomers will be senior citizens. What policies should we enact to prepare for an aging society? In the coming decade, we have a unique opportunity to create new and better aging policies. This collection of twenty essays by prominent educators, researchers, and policy analysts in the field of gerontology brings together innovative ideas from the... Read more
Contents
- Introduction
- Advancing Aging Policy as the 21st Century Begins
- Overview
- Emergence of the Third Age: Toward a Productive Aging Society
- The Politics of Near-Term Action to Deal with the Aging of the Baby Boom
- Towards a Society for All Ages
- The Elderly's Future Stake in Voluntary Associations
- Employment and Retirement
- Gradual Retirement in Europe
- Increasing Life Expectancy, Retirement Age, and Pension Reform in the German Context
- “The Full Monty” and Life-Long Learning in the 21st Century
- An Aging Workforce in an Increasingly Global World
- Long Term Care
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Efficiency in the Financing of Long-Term Care
- A Special Consumer Cooperative Association Nursing Home
- The Chronic Care Paradox
- Who Will Care for Mother Tomorrow?
- Uneasy Allies: Nursing Home Regulators and Consumer Advocates
- End of Life
- The Future of Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Dying and Social Policy in the New Millennium
- Economic Security
- The Continuing Gender Gap in Later Life Economic Security
- Aging Prisoners
- The Elderly and Prison Policy
- Latino Elders
- Policy Development and the Older Latino Population in the 21st Century
- Family Medical Leave
- Time Not Yet Money: The Politics and Promise of the Family Medical Leave Act
- Transportation
- How Will We Get There from Here? Placing Transportation on the Aging Policy Agenda
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Francis G Caro, Jill Norton, Robert Morris *Deceased*
