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Focus on Practice

 What Should We Call Older Adults? 3

 Reminiscence and Life Review 45

 Conscious Aging 56

 Health Promotion 79

 Older-Adult Education 113

 Managed Care 191

 Long-Term-Care Insurance 225

 Adult Protective Services 260

 Advance Directives 287

 Intergenerational Programs 363

 Investment Decisions for Retirement Income 397

 Retirement and Life Planning 441

 Aging Boomers in the Workplace 471

 The Multigenerational Workplace 471

 Later-Life Entrepreneurship 471

 Career Opportunity in the Silver Industries 492

Focus on the Future

 “I Dated a Cyborg!” 96

 Late-Life Learning in the Information Society 131

 Genetic Screening for Alzheimer’s Disease? 242

 Inheritance in an Aging Society 272

 Neighborhood Suicide Clinics? 303

 Walled Retirement Villages? 374

 Two Scenarios for the Future of Social Security 417

 The U.S. Wisdom Corps? 455

 60th Anniversary of Woodstock 481

 Everything Money Can Buy 503

Urban Legends of Aging

 “Respect for elders was higher in the past.” 11

 “Religion is good for your health.” 40

 “Antiaging medicine today is making rapid progress.” 72

 “Aging is not a disease.” 73

 “Drinking red wine will make you live longer.” 80

 “We lose a million neurons every day.” 111

 “We’re living much longer today.” 139

 “Prevention and health promotion are the way to save money in health care.” 142

 “Health care costs are high because we spend most of the money on old people in the last year of life.” 184

 “The 2010 health care law introduced ‘death panels’ and rationing of Medicare.” 187

 “Only 5% of older people live in nursing homes.” 217

 “Home care is cheaper than nursing homes.” 222

 “We need more regulation of nursing homes to prevent elder abuse.” 252

 “Older people are more likely to be victims of crime.” 257

 “Advance directives would have prevented the tragic case of Terri Schiavo.” 289

 “The gray lobby has a stranglehold on aging policy in the United States.” 341

 “Poverty among the old remains a major problem.” 351

 “Social Security is going broke; within a few decades, there won’t be any money to pay promised benefits.” 386

 “Retirement is bad for your health.” 425

 “The United States introduced age 65 for retirement, following Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who picked that number because it was his own age.” 443

 “Boomers are the best educated, healthiest generation ever.” 467

 “Ageism is the work of the advertising industry.” 486

Global Perspective

 The Search for Meaning in Asian Religions 41

 Blue Zones for Longer Life 76

 Universities of the Third Age 114

 Age-Based Rationing of Health Care in Britain 187

 Singapore’s Law Requiring Support of Aged Parents 218

 Ponzi Schemes Around the World 257

 Assisted Dying in Europe 284

 Vulnerable Elders in China 360

 The New Swedish National Pension System 393

 Older Workers in Japan 436

 Aging Boomers 468

 The Consumer Marketplace in Great Britain 489

Thinking Critically

 Meaning in Later Life 43

 Caloric Restriction 75

 With Age Comes Wisdom? 112

 Where Do You Come Down on the Rationing Debate? 185

 Family Expectations 217

 Would You Want to Be Protected From “Bad” Choices? 255

 The Right to Die 284

 Generational Competition 358

 The Future of Social Security 389

 Love and Work (and Love Your Work?) 439

 What Generation Are You? 463

 Drinking From the Fountain of Youth 487

 Age Appreciation 510

Readings

1 The Coming of Age 47

2 Successful Aging 49

3 Vital Involvement in Old Age 50

4 The Measure of My Days 53

5 Why Do We Live as Long as We Do? 81

6 Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve 82

7 The Compression of Morbidity Hypothesis: A Review of Research and Prospects for the Future 90

8 We Will Be Able to Live to 1,000 92

9 Don’t Fall for the Cult of Immortality 94

10 Age and Achievement 115

11 Creative Life Cycles 121

12 Growing Old or Living Long: Take Your Pick 124

13 Aging and Creativity 127

14 Why We Must Set Limits 194

15 Pricing Life: Why It’s Time for Health Care Rationing 200

16 The Pied Piper Returns for the Old Folks 201

17 From an Ethics of Rationing to an Ethics of Waste Avoidance 203

18 Aim Not Just for Longer Life, but Expanded “Health Span” 205

19 Medicaid and Long-Term Care 226

20 Aging America’s Achilles’ Heel: Medicaid Long-Term Care 228

21 The Case Against Paying Family Caregivers: Ethical and Practical Issues 233

22 For Love and Money: Paying Family Caregivers 237

23 The Right to Freedom From Restraints 262

24 Ethical Dilemmas in Elder Abuse 264

25 Understanding Elder Abuse 266

26 Elder Abuse: Sometimes It’s Self-Inflicted 270

27 Medical Aid In Dying 290

28 A Time to Die: The Place for Physician Assistance 292

29 What We Lose When We Gain the Right to Die 294

30 Neither for Love nor Money: Why Doctors Must Not Kill 297

31 Spending on Children and the Elderly 365

32 A Generational War Over the Budget? It’s Hard to See It in the Numbers 368

33 The Generational Equity Debate 371

34 The Necessity and Desirability of Social Security Reform 400

35 Social Security Reform and Benefit Adequacy 403

36 Social Security for Yesterday’s Family? 409

37 The Future of Social Security: Proposals You Should Know About 411

38 This New Social Security Bill Could Make Social Security Even Better 414

39 The Social Security 2100 Act Would Significantly Harm Americans 415

40 Framework for Considering Productive Aging and Work 444

41 Prime Time 450

42 Moving Toward a Creative Retirement 452

43 The Fading Dream of Retirement 454

44 Boomsday 473

45 Baby Boomers: From Great Expectations to a Crisis of Meaning 474

46 The Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders 477

47 The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation 479

48 Overview of the Boomer Market 493

49 Age Branding 494

50 The Marketplace of Memory: What the Brain Fitness Technology Industry Says About Us and How We Can Do Better 499

51 No Truth to the Fountain of Youth 502