Publication Date:
1989-05-12
Description:
Augmented by public programs such as Social Security and Medicare, incomes of the elderly in the United States have grown more rapidly during the last several decades than have the incomes of other groups, so that on average the elderly are at least as well off as the nonelderly. Not all elderly, however, have done as well: widows, in particular, have high poverty rates. The economic prospects of the elderly during the next few decades are good because of the large work force from the baby-boom cohort. In the distant future a large fraction of the population will be elderly, which will probably lead to a deterioration in their economic status. Today, the main problems center on the distribution of economic resources among the elderly and on uncertainties such as costs of medical care.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hurd, M D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 May 12;244(4905):659-64.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2655090" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Aged
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*Economics
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Humans
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*Income
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Medicaid
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Medicare
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Poverty
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Social Security
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United States
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
