Long Baby Boom

Jeff Goldsmith is the President of Health Futures, Inc. and Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is a University of Chicago-trained social scientist who has lectured at leading business schools in the United States, including the University of Chicago and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked for both the governor of Illinois and the dean of medicine at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine as a public policy analyst. For the past twenty-five years, he has served as a strategy consultant both to business and nonprofit enterprises.

Goldsmith's proposals are worth exploring... He paints a persuasive picture of a more positive outcome for both baby boomers and our economy. Health Affairs A 'must' for any college-level collection on social issues and contemporary American social history. Midwest Book Review 2008

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPrologue1. The Baby Boom: The Self-Involved Glacier2. The Social Safety Net for Older Americans: The Expensive Legacy of the New Deal3. Living to Work: Boomers, Retirement, and the Knowledge Economy4. Healthy Aging: Enabling a Longer, More Active Life5. Encouraging Work in Later Life: What Can Be Done?6. Medicare: The Mount Everest of Entitlements7. Social Security Reform: Grasping the Third Rail8. What We Need to Do9. What Baby Boomers Should Do for ThemselvesConclusionNotesIndex