Aging in America 2023 - (County and City Extra) 5th Edition by Robert L Scardamalia (Hardcover)

About the Book

Today, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers are all driven by the coming explosion in population over the age of 65. Aging in America focuses on the economic and demographic portrait of the senior population...

Book Synopsis

Today, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, trends in disability, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers are all driven by the coming explosion in the number of people over the age of 65. Aging in America focuses on the economic and demographic portrait of the senior population and can provide a context for analysis of broader population issues. It provides a wide range of characteristics of the older population including: age composition, race and Hispanic origin, educational attainment, living arrangements, veteran status, employment and income, health insurance, disability and housing characteristics.

Extracting comparative information from the Census Bureau's databases can be difficult and time-consuming. Aging in America provides comparative data on a variety of topics in a single, easy-to-use volume.

Some of the benefits of Aging in America include:
It provides a cross-section of socio-economic characteristics focused on the aging population for commonly researched geographic areas: states, counties, cities, metropolitan and micropolitan areas, and congressional districtsThe tables are structured to allow easy comparisons across geographic areas and easy profiling of characteristics

Review Quotes

"Twenty percent of the U.S. population is over age 65, and that cohort is increasing rapidly, with the fastest-growing group being the 85-plus crowd. The implications for labor, health care, public finance, and related concerns are immense. Organized into 10 information-dense chapters, this statistical compilation offers a portrait of America's older population. The hundreds of charts and tables that are the core of the resource provide a demographic picture of U.S. seniors with regard to age, ethnicity, household relationships, education, living arrangements, and similar topics. Data is uniformly categorized by states, counties, cities, metropolitan and micropolitan areas, and 116th Congressional Districts. A tremendous wealth of provocative numerical data is available in these pages. Four million American grandparents over age 65 live with their grandchildren, and a quarter of them are financially responsible for food, clothing, and shelter. In 13 states, over 20 percent of this group lives below the poverty level. This well-designed reference source is packed with information and confidently recommended for university libraries supporting programs in health, economics, sociology, and related fields and for research-oriented public libraries." --Booklist

Twenty percent of the U.S. population is over age 65, and that cohort is increasing rapidly, with the fastest-growing group being the 85-plus crowd. The implications for labor, health care, public finance, and related concerns are immense. Organized into 10 information-dense chapters, this statistical compilation offers a portrait of America's older population. The hundreds of charts and tables that are the core of the resource provide a demographic picture of U.S. seniors with regard to age, ethnicity, household relationships, education, living arrangements, and similar topics. Data is uniformly categorized by states, counties, cities, metropolitan and micropolitan areas, and 116th Congressional Districts. A tremendous wealth of provocative numerical data is available in these pages. Four million American grandparents over age 65 live with their grandchildren, and a quarter of them are financially responsible for food, clothing, and shelter. In 13 states, over 20 percent of this group lives below the poverty level. This well-designed reference source is packed with information and confidently recommended for university libraries supporting programs in health, economics, sociology, and related fields and for research-oriented public libraries.

About the Author

Mr. Scardamalia is a professional demographer whose career included serving as Chief Demographer for the State of New York for 22 years. As President of RLS Demographics, Inc. he has continued to provide demographic analysis for state and local governments and organizations, including work with the New York State Office for the Aging and the Albany Guardian Society, a senior services advocacy organization in Albany, NY. He specializes in the production of demographic projections, use of demographic and economic data for policy analysis and consumer marketing.

He is also the editor of Millennials in America, also published by Bernan Press.