This text provides a comprehensive survey of the implications of population ageing, in countries across the world, relative to a range of specific interrelated issues - social security schemes, employer pensions, educational attainment, wage growth and distribution, retirement a…
"In 1969, author Theodore Roszak took his first look at the boomer generation with his award-winning social commentary, The Making of a Counter Culture. Forty years later, he has written a call to arms for the same generation: The Making of an Elder Culture. It reminds boomers t…
"In 1969, author Theodore Roszak took his first look at the boomer generation with his award-winning social commentary, The Making of a Counter Culture. Forty years later, he has written a call to arms for the same generation: The Making of an Elder Culture. It reminds boomers t…
The Making of an Elder Culture reminds the boomers of the creative role they once played in our society and of the moral and intellectual resources they have to draw upon for radical transformation in their later years. Seeing the experience of aging as a revolution in conscious…
"This book examines the aging of the workforce in the advanced economies of North America, Europe and East Asia--the premise of this book is that we can do better"-- "The forces driving the first decades of the 21st century--globalization, technology, and unprecedented wealth m…
"The forces driving the first decades of the 21st century--globalization, technology, and unprecedented wealth mixed with jarring economic instability--are pushing the day of retirement later and later in life. The era of the aging worker is here. From the rice paddies of Japan …
"The forces driving the first decades of the 21st century--globalization, technology, and unprecedented wealth mixed with jarring economic instability--are pushing the day of retirement later and later in life. The era of the aging worker is here. From the rice paddies of Japan …
"This book examines the aging of the workforce in the advanced economies of North America, Europe and East Asia--the premise of this book is that we can do better"-- "The forces driving the first decades of the 21st century--globalization, technology, and unprecedented wealth m…
"By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our eld…
By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elde…