Title | Are Baby Boomers Living Well Longer? |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Weir, DR |
Book Title | Redefining Retirement: How Will Boomers Fare? |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
City | New York, NY |
Keywords | Expectations, Health Conditions and Status, Other |
Abstract | This chapter uses the Health and Retirement Study to describe the relationship between work and health for older persons by age. We examine not only the patterns within a given cross-section, but also we study trends in health at ages 51-56 between 1992 and 2004. Most retirement occurs well before the onset of work-limiting disability, leaving a large reserve of potential for longer worklives. Baby Boomers will likely have to draw on this reserve, yet its health is not demonstrably better than that of persons born a dozen years earlier. Nevertheless, advances in medical care for health conditions that most 51-56 year olds have not yet encountered may still yield better health at older ages for the Boomer cohort. |
Notes | ProCite field 6 : In ProCite field 8 : eds |
URL | https://repository.upenn.edu/prc_papers/364/ |
Endnote Keywords | Longevity/Retirement Expectations/health status/COHORT |
Endnote ID | 18130 |
Short Title | Are Baby Boomers Living Well Longer? |
Citation Key | 5211 |