Preface: Aging in America --
[1.] Health and aging by the numbers : Statistics, costs, and outlooks ; Baby boomers: public health's biggest challenges / Susan Blumenthal and Katherine Warren ; Senior health care crisis looms / Michelle Healy ; The status of baby boomers' health in the United States: the healthiest generation? / Dana E. King, Eric Matheson, Svetlana Chirina, and Jordan Broman-Fulks ; Boomers' health fails to measure up to parents / Barbara Bronson Gray ; Must we ration health care for the elderly? / Daniel Callahan ; Who will care for the elderly? / Peggie R. Smith ; Reframing the language of long-term care can shape policy, improve public perception / Victoria R. Ballesteros and Athan G. Bezaitis, Generations ; The aging of the baby boom and the growing care gap: a look at future declines in the availability of family caregivers / Donald Redfoot, Lynn Feinberg, and Ari Houser ; Boomers' aging parents may yield a tax deduction / Associated Press --
[2.] The economics of senior health care : What aging costs ; Aging baby boomers face shortage of caregivers / Jeanna Smialek ; Poverty among seniors getting harder to ignore / Jonathan Walters ; The Older Americans Act and U.S. seniors / Greg Kaufman ; Cutting retiree health care / Robert Barkin ; Myth: the aging population is to blame for uncontrollable health care costs / Journal of Health Services Research & Policy ; Outsourcing the elderly: low-cost care made in India / Laurie Goering --
[3.] Caring for elder parents : Obligations to young and old ; The sandwich generation: rising financial burdens for middle-aged Americans / Kim Parker and Eileen Patten ; Caring for aging parents: should there be a law? / Francine Russo ; The dilemma of taking care of elderly parents / Lillian Rubin ; The guilt of caring for elderly parents / Suzanne Koven ; Elderly caregiving: daughters usually deal with strain of helping aging parents / Amanda Mears ; Afraid to tell your boss you're a caregiver? / Sally Abrahms ; Baby boomers caring for elderly parents-SPeCial things to do / Ann Bettencourt --
[4.] Redefining the senior years : The changing perception of age ; Boom: a generation explodes assumptions about aging / Maureen Hannan ; Newer tech on the rise with seniors / Laurenne Ramsdell ; Careers: time for an encore for baby boomers / Dave Carpenter ; Why are baby boomers leading the entrepreneurial movement? / Hanah Cho ; Living to 120 and beyond: Americans' views on aging, medical advances, and radical life extension / Pew Research ; Why do grandmothers exist? Solving an evolutionary mystery / Judith Schulevitz ; Something more to say. . . / Catherine Jackson ; Death dinners at baby boomers' tables take on dying taboo / Shannon Pettypiece --
[5.] How living longer is advancing medicine and health care : How science is extending life ; We're living longer-and healthier / Alexandra Sifferlin, ; Aging baby boomers want to live active lives, require innovations in medical treatment / Wendy Leonard ; Innovation in senior care: "telegivers" help more seniors age at home / Husna Haq ; How health tech can support the aging baby boomer population / Alicia Torres ; On beyond 100 / Stephen S. Hall ; We're living longer / Larry Kusch --
[6.] An aging world population : The challenges and demands of an aging population ; An aging population may be what the world needs / Charles Kinney ; Global study: world not ready for aging population / Kristin Gelineau ; Aging population more at risk from environmental threats / Gary Haq ; Women living longer worldwide / Alexandra Sifferlin ; Major study finds that overall population health in U.S. has improved, but has not kept pace with other wealthy nations / Journal of the American Medical Association ; How growth of elderly population in U.S. compares with other countries / Francesca Colombo ; Do other countries take better care of the elderly? / Miriam Goodman ; Bank on it: is this volunteer program the solution to China's elder-care crisis? / Benjamin Shobert ; Asia's new aging rich break family lies for gilded retirement / Rina Chandran ; Aging in Ghana: is it indeed a blessing or what? / Alhaji Alhasan Abdulai.
