Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Contextualizing Demographic Concerns; 2 Intergenerational Interlinkages: Public, Family, and Work; 3 Aging, Language, and Culture; 4 The Impact of Demographic and Social Trends on Informal Support for Older Persons; 5 Aging and Productivity: What Do We Know?; 6 Work and Leisure: A Question of Balance; 7 Catching Up with Diversity in Intergenerational Relationships; Appendix: Iowa City Declaration; Bibliography
Summary
Contributors question whether an aging society is necessarily inferior or problematic compared with the recent past, cautioning that exaggerated concerns about population aging can be harmful to rational policy making
