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The long baby boom : an optimistic vision for a graying generation / Jeff Goldsmith.
Van Pelt Library HQ1063.2.U6 G654 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldsmith, Jeff Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baby boom generation--United States--Psychology.
- Baby boom generation.
- Baby boom generation--Retirement--United States.
- Baby boom generation--Retirement.
- Health attitudes.
- Social conditions.
- Baby boom generation--Health and hygiene.
- Psychology.
- United States.
- Baby boom generation--Health and hygiene--United States.
- Baby boom generation--United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Health attitudes--Age factors--United States.
- Medical care--United States--Forecasting.
- Medical care.
- Forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 207 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801888519
- 0801888514
- OCLC:
- 174501138
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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