Age Power
Subtitle: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: September 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781585420438
Subjects: Social prediction; Politics/International Relations; General; Political Science; Sociology; United States; Social aspects; Future Studies; Gerontology; Self-Help / Aging; Aging; Baby boom generation
First sentence: America is becoming a "gerontocracy" and four outcomes are certain: 1. More of us will live longer than in any previous generation; 2. The epicenter of economic and political power will shift from the young to the old; 3. We will need to change our current mind set about how to spend our extra years of life; and 4. How we decide to behave as elders will, in all likelihood, become the most important challenge we will face in our lives.