Aging in America / [compiled by H. W. Wilson].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

H.W. Wilson Company.

Series:

Reference shelf ; v. 86, no. 1.

The reference shelf ; volume 86, number 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--United States.

Older people.

Aging--Economic aspects.

Older people--Care.

United States.

Older people--Care--United States.

Older people--Care--Economic aspects--United States.

Aging--Social aspects--United States.

Aging.

Aging--Social aspects.

Aging--Economic aspects--United States.

Baby boom generation--United States.

Baby boom generation.

Physical Description:

xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25cm.

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : H. W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

This volume examines the great challenges America will face in caring for aging baby boomers. The collection begins with statistical data on the major health issues for boomers, the demographics of the population, and the availability of health care in the future. How to negotiate rising medical costs and a growing population of seniors is one of the greatest challenges, the topic of the following chapter. The challenges and opportunities for families who care for aging parents is certain to be a developing issue in the future. The two following chapters examine progressive opportunities presented by an aging population. First, in the way perspectives on the senior years have evolved in the recent decade; second, on innovations in medicine that must respond to health care in the future. The final chapter compares America's response to an aging population with that of other counties in the world.

Contents:

Preface : aging in America

[1.] Health and aging by the numbers. Statistics, costs, and outlooks

Baby boomers : public health's biggest challenges / Susan Blumenthal and Katherine Warren, The Huffington Post, April 1, 2011

Senior health care crisis looms / Michelle Healy, USA Today, May 28, 2013

The status of baby boomers' health in the United States : the healthiest generation? / Dana E. King, Eric Matheson, Svetlana Chirina, and Jordan Broman-Fulks, JAMA Internal Medicine, March 11, 2013

Boomers' health fails to measure up to parents / Barbara Bronson Gray, US News, February 4, 2013

Must we ration health care for the elderly? / Daniel Callahan, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Spring 2012

Who will care for the elderly? / Peggie R. Smith, Buffalo Law Review, July 5, 2013

Reframing the language of long-term care can shape policy, improve public perception / Victoria R. Ballesteros and Athan G. Bezaitis, Generations, Spring 2011

The aging of the baby boom and the growing care gap : a look at future declines in the availability of family caregivers / Donald Redfoot, Lynn Feinberg, and Ari Houser, AARP, August 13, 2013

Boomers' aging parents may yield a tax deduction / Associated Press, January 25, 2013

[2.] The economics of senior health care what aging costs. Aging baby boomers face shortage of caregivers / Jeanna Smialek, Bloomberg News, September 27, 2013

Poverty among seniors getting harder to ignore / Jonathan Walters, Governing.com, January 13, 2013

The Older Americans Act and U.S. seniors / Greg Kaufman, The Nation, June 21, 2013

Cutting retiree health care / Robert Barkin, American City and County Exclusive Insight, June 11, 2013

Myth : the aging population is to blame for uncontrollable health care costs / Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, October 2011

Outsourcing the elderly : low-cost care made in India / Laurie Goering, Chicago Tribune, August 3, 2007

[3.] Caring for elder parents obligations to young and old. The sandwich generation : rising financial burdens for middle-aged Americans / Kim Parker and Eileen Patten, PewSociaITrends.org, January 30, 2013

Caring for aging parents : should there be a law? / Francine Russo, Time, June 22, 2013

The dilemma of taking care of elderly parents / Lillian Rubin, Salon.com, November 26, 2011

The guilt of caring for elderly parents / Suzanne Koven, Boston Globe, February 25, 2013

Elderly caregiving : daughters usually deal with strain of helping aging parents / Amanda Mears, Deseret News, June 14, 2010

Afraid to tell your boss you're a caregiver? / Sally Abrahms, AARP the Magazine, September 1, 2011

Baby boomers caring for elderly parents-SPeCial things to do / Ann Bettencourt, Psychology Today, December 11, 2011

[4.] Redefining the senior years the changing perception of age. Boom : a generation explodes assumptions about aging / Maureen Hannan, Parks and Recreation, May 12, 2013

Newer tech on the rise with seniors / Laurenne Ramsdell, Foster's Daily Democrat, October 27, 2013

Careers : time for an encore for baby boomers / Dave Carpenter, Associated Press, September 9, 2012

Why are baby boomers leading the entrepreneurial movement? / Hanah Cho, Dallas Morning News, May 20, 2013

Living to 120 and beyond : Americans' views on aging, medical advances, and radical life extension / Pew Research, August 6, 2013

Why do grandmothers exist? solving an evolutionary mystery / Judith Schulevitz, The New Republic, February 11, 2013

Something more to say. . . / Catherine Jackson, Therapy Today, June 13, 2013

Death dinners at baby boomers' tables take on dying taboo / Shannon Pettypiece, Bloomberg, September 23, 2013

[5.] How living longer is advancing medicine and health care how science is extending life. We're living longer-and healthier / Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, July 29, 2013

Aging baby boomers want to live active lives, require innovations in medical treatment / Wendy Leonard, Deseret News, April 14, 2013

Innovation in senior care : "telegivers" help more seniors age at home / Husna Haq, Christian Science Monitor, April 13, 2011

How health tech can support the aging baby boomer population / Alicia Torres, Venturebeat.com, April 9, 2013

On beyond 100 / Stephen S. Hall, National Geographic, May 1, 2013

We're living longer / Larry Kusch, Winnipeg Free Press, October 26, 2013

[6.] An aging world population. The challenges and demands of an aging population

An aging population may be what the world needs / Charles Kinney, Business Week, February 7, 2013

Global study : world not ready for aging population / Kristin Gelineau, Associated Press, September 30, 2013

Aging population more at risk from environmental threats / Gary Haq, The Conversation, October 28, 2013

Women living longer worldwide / Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, September 13, 2013

Major study finds that overall population health in U.S. has improved, but has not kept pace with other wealthy nations / Journal of the American Medical Association, September 10, 2013

How growth of elderly population in U.S. compares with other countries / Francesca Colombo, PBS.org, May 24, 2013

Do other countries take better care of the elderly? / Miriam Goodman, Examiner, November 9, 2011

Bank on it : is this volunteer program the solution to China's elder-care crisis? / Benjamin Shobert, Slate, November 5, 2013

Asia's new aging rich break family lies for gilded retirement / Rina Chandran, Bloomberg.com, November 20, 2013

Aging in Ghana : is it indeed a blessing or what? / Alhaji Alhasan Abdulai, GhanaWeb, November 18, 2013.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781619254329

1619254328

OCLC:

867860520