Are Baby Boomers Healthy Enough to Keep Working?

Today’s Research on Aging (Issue 37): Working longer can reduce public spending and enable some older workers to enter retirement with more financial security. But are older Americans healthy enough to work longer?

This Today's Research on Aging (Issue 36)  explores the evidence of a decline in dementia and the trends that may shape the future prevalence of this debilitating condition—focusing on recent work by researchers supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA).

This Today's Research on Aging (Issue 35)  finds that the social, economic, demographic, and physical characteristics of communities may influence older residents’ health and well-being.

Today's Research on Aging (Issue 34): Most people know about the importance of eating a healthy diet, exercising, maintaining a healthy weight, and avoiding smoking to prevent disease and increase longevity. But researchers have identified many other factors that may affect life expectancy.

Today's Research on Aging (Issue 33) In the United States, the majority of care that allows older people to live in their own homes is provided by family members who do not receive pay for their services. As the older share of the population increases the care needs of older Americans will become…

Today's Research on Aging Issue Archive (2007-2015): Funding for this series and related articles and webcasts have been provided by the National Institute on Aging, Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR), through a grant from the University of Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging…

Today's Research on Aging (Issue 32): Although young adults in their 20s and 30s bore the brunt of the Great Recession (2007 to 2009), many Americans ages 50 and older were also affected by rising unemployment, falling home values, and the decline in the stock market.

Today's Research on Aging (Issue 31): Tracking the well-being of older people can inform individual treatment strategies and health care policies, but current well-being measures may not incorporate all the factors that combine to shape an older person’s sense of well-being.

Today's Research on Aging (Issue 30): This issue examines new research on the elderly in Latin America their trends and implications.

Today's Research on Aging (Issue 29): In 2010, more than one in eight U.S. adults ages 65 and older were foreign-born, a share that is expected to continue to grow. The U.S. elderly immigrant population rose from 2.7 million in 1990 to 4.6 million in 2010, a 70 percent increase in 20 years

Today's Research on Aging (Issue 28): Despite advances in health care and increases in income over the past 50 years, significant gaps in life expectancy and health by race and ethnicity persist among older Americans.

Today's Research on Aging (Issue 27) For most people, the probability of having a physical or mental disability increases with age, as does the number of ailments they might have at any time—particularly after age 70.