Description
Book SynopsisScholars, students, and policymakers will appreciate the volume's timely overview of the evolution of aging policy.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors
Preface
1. Contemporary Challenges to Aging Policy
2. The Implications of Structural Lag for Old Age Policy
3. Fiscal Effects of Population Aging in the United States
4. The Great Divide: Elite and Mass Opinion about Social Security
5. The Shifting Political Construction of Older Americans as aTarget Population
6. Working, Retiring, and the New Old Age
7. Diversity and the Economic Security of Older Americans
8. The Policy Challenges of a Larger and More Diverse: Oldest-Old Population
9. Social Security, the Great Recession, and the Entitlements Problem
10. The Medicare Challenge: Clients, Cost Controls, and Congress
11. Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I'm 84? Long-Term Care Challenges for an Aging America
12. Means-Testing of Entitlements: Good Policy? Good Politics?
13. Ageism's Many Forms: Institutional, Unintended, and Reverse
Conclusion. The Futures of Old Age Politics and Policy
