Product Description: As baby boomers reach retirement age, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, trends in disability, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers are all at the forefront of conversation. Aging in America focuses on the economic and demographic portrait of the senior population and answers several important questions:What is the socio-economic portrait of the senior population in my community?How has this population changed over time?Where are the most diverse or most homogenous communities?What proportion of the senior population is still working?What are their incomes?Is there affordable housing in this area for seniors?How many seniors care for grandchildren?What is the incidence of disability by type?The Decennial Census and annual American Community Survey form the basis for this aging portrait...read more

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Product Description: The aging of the U.S. population and the rising average life span are transforming current perspectives on growing older, retirement, and senior living communities. To ensure that environments meet the changing needs of older adults, a reconception of housing, communities, and neighborhoods is required...read more

In recent years computational intelligence has been extended by adding many other subdisciplines and this new field requires a series of challenging problems that will give it a sense of direction in order to ensure that research efforts are not wasted. This book written by top experts in computational intelligence provides such clear directions and a much-needed focus on the most important and challenging research issues.

Product Description: Significant demographic changes are altering the structure of the American population. Larger numbers of immigrants are entering the work force, will become part of our aging population, and increasingly, are providing care for the elderly...read more

Product Description: The first three chapters of this book contain gerontological information concerning the aging process, demographics, changes in the style of living and agin persons, and vulnerabilities encountered. This volume explicates fundamental beliefs in the need for active engagement - socially, physically, cognitively, and emotionally...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author The Making of a Counter Culture returns with a new assessment of the Baby Boom generation, exploring issues of economics, politics, medicine, ethics, biotechnology, and class. (view table of contents)

The best-selling author of Age Wave and Bodymind explores the implications of the aging of the baby-boom generation for American business, family life, health care, social institutions, and the political system. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The best-selling author of The Making of a Counter Culture provides a provocative look at America's feelings toward their senior citizens and the way they are perceived by the media, the family, and society as a whole. (view table of contents)

With selections from such notables as Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Carl Sagan, Charles Schulz, and others, this anthology--enhanced with quizzes, polls, and surveys--addresses the rewards and challenges confronting people over age fifty.

Discusses the significance of later life by examining the cultural history of aging and how it has been viewed from the Reformation, through the twentieth century (view table of contents)

Product Description: Vincent draws on his experience as a social worker and local elected official in Britain as well as his training and field work in social anthropology and sociology to analyze the social status of the elderly in modern culture and suggest what values society as a whole should attach to them to make all of us more respected during the last third of all our lives...read more

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Product Description: In our youth-oriented, patriarchal society, aging and older women often find themselves either ignored, pitied, or feared. Women and Aging is a valuable guide to help women break through the negative stereotypes of old age and find personal fulfillment through the stages of maturity...read more

Assesses the implications of an aging population on American society, addressing social, financial, political, medical, economic, educational, and personal factors (view table of contents)

Assesses the implications of an aging population on American society, addressing social, financial, political, medical, economic, educational, and personal factors

Product Description: Book by Watson, Wilbur H.