Analysis Of Aging In America

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Prior to reading about “Aging in America”, I was aware of economic, long-term care, and health care concerns with “baby boomers” retiring over the next few decades. However, some of the actual statistics Squiers found were surprising, for instance there are approximately “75.9 million” adults in the baby boom generation (2005, p. 193) and the U.S. has the third largest population of seniors. Also informative was that the “baby boomers” will lose both Medicare and Social Security benefits due to there being “nearly twice as many boomers as there are current Medicare recipients” (Squiers, 2005, p. 193) and the funds will not be enough to cover the number of people aged 65 and older coming into retirement. Other enlightening information was

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