Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 37: Health and Working Past Traditional Retirement Ages
(2018) Americans are living longer than they did in the past, and many more can expect to reach age 85 or older. By 2030, when the last of the large baby boom generation (born 1946 to 1964) has reached their mid-60s, more than 21 percent of the U.S. population is projected to be age 65 or older—up from about 15 percent in 2016.