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 United States, Europe, and Japan. Instead of focusing on utopian dreams, these exciting proposals are based on policy changes that may well be attainable in the next ten years. The vital concerns addressed in Advancing Aging Policy as the 21st Century Begins include work and retirement issues, the aging prison population, long-term care, Latino elders, transportation, death and dying issues, and the aging of the baby boom generation. Advancing Aging Policy as the 21st Century Begins explores:
- innovative policies and care arrangements around the world
- the importance of a strong economy that provides opportunities for seniors who seek them and support for those who need it
- the need for flexible retirement and employment policies for older adults
- the connections between family policy and aging policy
- the importance of improving training and compensation for workers in long-term care
- the special needs of our diverse and rapidly growing population of older people
- the importance of focusing aging policy on people rather than on programsThis forward-looking book on policy and aging in the coming decade puts the experience and insight of leaders in the field from around the world in your hands. Policymakers, educators, and students of gerontology will find it an invaluable resource.
INTRODUCTION Advancing Aging Policy as the 21st Century Begins 1(6) Francis G. Caro OVERVIEW Emergence of the Third Age: Toward a Productive Aging Society 7(12) Scott A. Bass The Politics of Near-Term Action to Deal with the Aging of the Baby Boom 19(12) Robert H. Binstock Towards a Society for All Ages 31(10) Charlotte Nusberg The Elderlys Future Stake in Voluntary Associations 41(8) W. Andrew Achenbaum EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT Gradual Retirement in Europe 49(12) Genevieve Reday-Mulvey Increasing Life Expectancy, Retirement Age, and Pension Reform in the German Context 61(10) Winfried Schmahl ``The Full Monty and Life-Long Learning in the 21st Century 71(12) James H. Schulz An Aging Workforce in an Increasingly Global World 83(6) Michael C. Barth LONG-TERM CARE Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Efficiency in the Financing of Long-Term Care 89(10) John A. Nyman A Special Consumer Cooperative Association Nursing Home 99(8) Masato Oka The Chronic Care Paradox 107(8) Robert L. Kane Who Will Care for Mother Tomorrow? 115(12) Andy Van Kleunen Mary Ann Wilner Uneasy Allies: Nursing Home Regulators and Consumer Advocates 127(10) Iris C. Freeman END OF LIFE The Future of Physician-Assisted Suicide 137(8) Amy Hutchinson Henry R. Glick Dying and Social Policy in the New Millennium 145(12) D. Dixon Sutherland Rebecca C. Morgan ECONOMIC SECURITY The Continuing Gender Gap in Later Life Economic Security 157(10) Leslie A. Morgan AGING PRISONERS The Elderly and Prison Policy 167(10) Jeff Yates William Gillespie LATINO ELDERS Policy Development and the Older Latino Population in the 21st Century 177(12) Jan E. Mutchler Jacqueline L. Angel FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE Time Not Yet Money: The Politics and Promise of the Family Medical Leave Act 189(12) Robert H. Hudson Judith G. Gonyea TRANSPORTATION How Will We Get There from Here? Placing Transportation on the Aging Policy Agenda 201(10) Roger W. Cobb Joseph F. Coughlin Index 211
Francis G Caro, Jill Norton, Robert Morris *Deceased*
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