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The oldest baby boomers, born in 1946, have 36 years of life left, on average. The youngest can expect to live for 53 more years.1 But many baby boomers will live longer than the averages. Advances in medical technology should add at least a few more years to life by the time the baby boom reaches old age.
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National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics of the United States, 1982, Life Tables,Volume II, Section 6, DHHS Pub. No. (PHS)85–1104 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985), Tables 6–3, 6-a.
John M. Owen and James W. Vaupel, “An Exercise in Life Expectancy,” American Demographics, November 1985, pp. 37–38.
Lois M. Verbrugge, “From Sneezes to Adieux,” American Demographics, May 1986, pp. 34–39, 53.
Ibid., p. 35.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 36.
Ibid., p. 53.
National Center for Health Statistics, Current Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey: United States, 1982,Series 10, No. 150, DHHS Pub. No. (PHS)85–1578, September 1985, Table 26.
Ibid., Table 1.
Ibid., Table 57.
Glenn Collins, “Many in Work Force Care for Elderly Kin,” The New York Times, 6 January 1986, p. B5.
Marilyn Doss Ruffin, “Contribution of the Family to the Economic Support of the Elderly,” Family Economics Review, No. 4, U.S. Department of Agriculture, October 1984, p. 8.
Alice T. Day, “Who Cares? Demographic Trends Challenge Family Care for the Elderly,” Population Trends and Public Policy ( Washington, D.C.: Population Reference Bureau, September 1985 ), p. 4.
Ibid.
National Center for Health Statistics, “Aging in the Eighties, Age 65 Years and Over and Living Alone, Contacts with Family, Friends, and Neighbors, Preliminary Data From the Supplement on Aging to the National Health Interview Survey: United States, January-June 1984,” NCHS Advance Data,Number 116, 9 May 1986, P. 3.
Ibid.
U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Demographic and Socioeconomic Aspects of Aging in the United States,” p. 90.
Ibid., Table 7–9.
Ibid., p. 91.
Ibid.
Harper’s Index,“ Harper’s,May 1986, p. 11.
Day, pp. 4–5.
Martha Farnsworth Riche, “The Nursing Home Dilemma,” American Demographics, October 1985, p. 36.
Siegel and Taeuber, p. 106.
Employee Benefit Research Institute, “Financing Long-Term Care,” EBRI Issue Brief, No. 48, November 1985, p. 1.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 9.
Paul Wiligang quoted in Martha Farnsworth Riche, “The Nursing Home Dilemma,” American Demographics, October 1985, p. 37.
Katie Sloan quoted in Martha Farnsworth Riche, “Retirement’s Lifestyle Pioneers,” American Demographics, January 1986, p. 50.
Joyce Jensen, “Health Care Alternatives,” American Demographics, March 1986, p. 38.
National Center for Health Statistics, Life Tables,Table 6–2.
U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Projections of the Population,” Table 6.
National Center for Health Statistics, Life Tables,Table 6–3.
Noreen Goldman and Graham Lord, “Sex Differences in Life Cycle Measures of Widowhood,” Demography, Volume 20, No. 2, May 1983, p. 185.
Siegel and Taeuber, p. 103.
Lois M. Verbrugge, “Gender and Health: An Update on Hypotheses and Evidence,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Volume 26, No. 3, September 1985, p. 177.
Siegel and Taeuber, pp. 97, 98.
U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Projections of the Population,” Table 6.
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Russell, C. (1987). What the Baby Boom Will Die of. In: 100 Predictions for the Baby Boom. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3468-0_8
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