Baby Boomers Can My Eighties Be Like My Fifties?

Name: Baby Boomers Can My Eighties Be Like My Fifties?
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ISBN: 9780826126153

ISBN-10: 0826126154

ISBN-13: 9780826126153

Edition: 2005

Authors: M. Joanna Mellor, Helen Rehr

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Based on a conference funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this book brings together baby boomers and health care professionals to explore baby boomers? perceptions of their future social-health care expectations and needs.

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Contributors


Foreword



Preface



Acknowledgment



Introduction: An Unsuspecting Future




Overview: Current Seniors, Baby Boomers, Minorities, and Health Disparities



A Baby Boomer's Perception of the Baby Boom Era




Income Security: Social Security, Work, Pensions, and Savings



Health Care Security: Medicare, Medicaid, Health Insurance, and Health Care Delivery



Long-Term Care: Who Will Care for Us?



End-of-Life-Care




Retirement, Lifestyles, and Roles: Leisure, Volunteering, and Work



Living Arrangements



Aging in Place: Shaping Communities for Tomorrow's Baby, Boomers- Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs)




Health Care Professionals and Their Education



Community Collaboration and Advocacy



Can My Eighties Be Like My Fifties?: Conclusions and Recommendations


Appendix



Social Work Fellows Planning Committee



Summit Presenters



Workshop Leaders and Reporters


Index