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Prime Time: How Baby-Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America
Prime Time How BabyBoomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America Author:Marc Freedman With an original analysis of the impact of the aging of America, Marc Freedman describes hidden opportunities as we consider how to motivate the experience, talent and civic potential of adults who don't want to grow old passively. By 2030 nearly one quarter of the population will be 65 or older; by 2050, for the first time ever, there will be ... more »more of us over 65 than under 18. One of the most stunning features of this trend is the increase in American life expectancy by thirty years since the turn of the century, an increase greater than all of the previous gains over the past 5,000 years. The end result is a new stage of life, in unprecedented good health. Despite the dire predictions regarding the depletion of resources and strains on families, Marc Freedman casts the aging of America in a positive light, identifying it not so much as a problem to be solved, but as an opportunity to be seized - provided we can learn to engage the experience, and talent, of older adults. At a juncture when the middle-generation is in the midst of a time-famine, struggling to simultaneously raise kids and work long hours on the job, the older generation is awash in free time, poised to abandon the state of limbo unfulfilling for most older Americans. Freedman argues that the trend many portray as our downfall may in fact be our best hope for social renewal.« less