SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY TODAY

An Introduction

Chapter 3: Demography, Population and Housing: the Elderly today and Tomorrow - Study Questions

1. How have the three components of population change (births, deaths and migration) contributed to the changing proportion of older Americans?

2. Explain the dramatic shifts in life expectancy since 1900?

3. What might be some of the demographic, social and economic effects as well as scientific developments that would dramatically increase average life expectancy for men?

4. Select a few social policies or issues that are currently being debated. Discuss how the now-old might be affected by any changes in social policies, such as Medicare, Social Security and so forth.

5. Are you a member of the baby bust or baby boomer generation? Or are you a member of the baby boom era, or a baby boomer? Regardless of your birth cohort, what do you envision as your role in planning for the aging of the baby boomers?

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