Achieving a Productive Aging Society

Scott A. Bass is Director of the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts at Boston. He is also Director of the PhD in Gerontology Program, one of two in the country, and chair of the Gerontology Department. He is a Professor and a founder of the Gerontology Certificate Program in the College of Public and Community Service, a model for the training of students over 60 years old for careers in aging and social policy. Under Dr. Bass's leadership, the Gerontology Institute has grown in one decade to a nationally recognized research and policy institute devoted to the problems of our aging society.Francis G. Caro is Director of the Frank J. Manning Research Division of the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and is a member of the faculty of the PhD program in Gerontology. Formerly Director of Reserach for the Community Service Society of New York, a major private social welfare agency which among other things is engaged in policy research on problems of the poor in New York City, he is an internationally recognized expert on long-term care and urban policy.Yung-Ping Chen is the first holder of the Frank J. Manning Eminent Scholar's Chair in Gerontology at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and a member of the faculty of the PhD program in Gerontology. Previously, he was the first occupant of the Frank M. Engle Distinguished Chair in Economic Security Research at American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Recipient of a Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award (Economics) at the University of California at Los Angeles where he taught for many years, he earlier held a Brookings Research Professorship, Brookings Institute, Washington, DC.

• Preface by Scott A. Bass Achieving a Productive Aging Society by Francis G. Caro, Scott A. Bass, and Yung-Ping Chen Age, Productivity, and Transcendence by Harry R. Moody Labor Market Obstacles to Productive Aging by Joseph F. Quinn and Richard V. Burkhauser Ageism in the Labor Market versus Productive Aging by Alan Walker and Philip Taylor New Technologies and the Aging Work Force by David C. Mowery and Mark S. Kamlet Is Unretirement Unprecedented? by W. Andrew Achenbaum and Malcolm H. Morrison Formal Volunteer Work Among Older Americans by A. Regula Herzog and James N. Morgan Caregiving and Productive Aging by Pamela Doty and Baila Miller The Political Economy of Productive Aging: Long-term Care by Laura Katz Olson Religious Institutions and Productive Aging: Lost Traditions/Horizons Reclaimed by W. Andrew Achenbaum The Lessons of Television: Learning Productive Aging as a Social Role by George Gerbner A Strategy for Productive Aging: Education in Later Life by Harry R. Moody Women's Lives, Women's Work: Productivity, Gender, and Aging by Martha Holstein Cultural and Ethnic Contexts of Aging Productively Over the Life-Course: An Economic Network Framework by James S. Jackson, Toni C. Antonucci, and Rose C. Gibson Continuing Limits on Productive Aging: The Lesser Rewards for Working Women by Karen C. Holden Conclusion: Defining the Place of the Elderly for the 21st Century by Robert Morris Index