Demography of Aging

Demography of Aging

  • Author: Preston, Samuel H.; Martin, Linda G.
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309050852
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309552554
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1994
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 424
  • Language: English

As the United States and the rest of the world face the unprecedented challenge of aging populations, this volume draws together for the first time state-of-the-art work from the emerging field of the demography of aging. The nine chapters, written by experts from a variety of disciplines, highlight data sources and research approaches, results, and proposed strategies on a topic with major policy implications for labor forces, economic well-being, health care, and the need for social and family supports.

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Formal Demography of Population Aging, Transfers, and the Economic Life Cycle
  • 3 Retirement and Labor Force Behavior of the Elderly
  • 4 Income, Wealth, and Intergenerational Economic Relations of the Aged
  • 5 The Elderly and Their Kin: Patterns of Availability and Access
  • 6 Care of the Elderly: Division of Labor Among the Family, Market, and State
  • 7 Medical Demography: Interaction of Disability Dynamics and Mortality
  • 8 Socioeconomic Differences in Adult Mortality and Health Status
  • 9 Geographic Concentration, Migration, and Population Redistribution Among the Elderly
  • 10 Research on the Demography of Aging in Developing Countries
  • Appendix: Letter to Richard Suzman of the National Institute on Aging from the Committee on Population, March 2, 1993

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