Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, the NCWA is analyzing the impact of raising the age of eligibility for Medicare on women close to retirement age. The Center will evaluate how midlife and older women gain access to health care, and the extent of their vulnerability to the loss of health care coverage. The site offers a unique and selective content focus that features research addressing the monetary aspects of aging as they influence individual decision-making and public policy in areas such as health, housing, employment, law, and finance. This website serves both scholars and practitioners in a broad range of aging-related fields. This two-year project examines the experience of privatization of social security in Australia and Great Britain to extract lessons about the ways that women in the United States may be affected by proposed reforms in the U.S. Social Security program.
Results are now available in a series of monographs .
Funded by Anonymous dornors Charting a course in planning for a secure financial future can hardly be described as smooth sailing. Increasing individual responsibility for retirement savings and an ever expanding choice of financial options has created an extremely complex environment. Prior studies show that both men and women lack knowledge about financing retirement. Traditional gender roles, lower incomes and less wealth create special challenges for midlife and older women. To learn more about these challenges, the Center interviewed 500 women across the country.