%0 Book Section %B Redefining Retirement: How Will Boomers Fare? %D 2007 %T Are Baby Boomers Living Well Longer? %A David R Weir %K Expectations %K Health Conditions and Status %K Other %X 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. %B Redefining Retirement: How Will Boomers Fare? %I Oxford University Press %C New York, NY %G eng %U https://repository.upenn.edu/prc_papers/364/ %4 Longevity/Retirement Expectations/health status/COHORT %$ 18130 %! Are Baby Boomers Living Well Longer?