Does America have an Aging Challenge?

Does America have an aging challenge? It appears so…As baby boomers enter advanced age, the shortfalls of our current care delivery systems are increasingly clear. If nothing changes, we are woefully unprepared for a world with more older adults than ever before. However, the solutions are all around us waiting to be put into motion.

For three decades, authors David and Martha Dunkelman have been immersed in creating and adapting buildings and programs for older people. All of it proved inadequate. It has taken another six years to begin to understand what they experienced and the road ahead.

The 72 million Boomers, having grappled with their aging parents, have had direct experience with the ghastly fate that apparently awaits them. The standard dreary picture causes societal denial and evasion. Aging, the nation’s largest socio-economic issue, seems like a chasm awaiting us and receives scant realistic attention.

This destiny will not come to pass. Aging Forward is about what will actually happen. It explains how we got to today, the real dynamics at work, and how those dynamics will fashion a dramatically different future. We will realize that aging is not what we thought.

Aging Forward explains:

• The current framework’s aging statistics are so bleak that people run away from…