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1. Challenger, John A. 2002. “Strategies for Older Workers.” Futurist, July/August 2002, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p44. Content Select: General Interest, AN_6799186. Discusses the value of social capital. Provides advice to older workers about job search in the U.S. and some of the challenges facing senior employees. 2. Wagner, Cynthia G. 2002. “The Pursuit of Health.” Futurist, November/December 2002, Vol. 36 Issue 6, p12. Content Select: General Interest, AN_7542024. Discusses the health status and attitudes of U.S. elderly and attitudes toward changes in life style for health purposes. Compares U./S. elderly to European elderly. Discusses the acceptance of elderly. 3. Doherty, Tom. 2001. “LTC Can Tap the Next Generation.” Advisor Today, March 2001, Vol. 96 Issue 3, p24. Content Select: General Interest, AN_4298768. Discusses the potential market of adult children of aging parents for consumers of long-term care insurance policies. Teaches how attitudes change and how agents should approach the adult children as clients. Also presents recent trends in sales of LTC insurance. 4. Deas, Gerald W. 2000. “Give Some Time to The old-Timers.” New York Amsterdam News, April 20, 2000, Vol. 91 Issue 16, p14. Content Select: General Interest, AN_3023755. Discusses the need for family members to visit their aging family and friends living either alone or in long-term care facilities. Tells case of lost treasure of neglected elderly woman. Provides suggestions for initiating and maintaining visits. 5. Bower, B. 2000. “Dementia May Travel Lonely Road In Elderly.” Science News, April 22, 2000, Vol. 157 Issue 17, p263. Content Select: General Interest, AN_3014605. Claims that isolation of elderly increases chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease and related brain ailments. Marriage and active social interaction protect against dementia. 6. “Experts Say Elder Abuse is On the Rise in America.” 1997. New York Amsterdam News, January 11, 1997, Vol. 88 Issue 2, p18. Content Select: General Interest, AN_9701290052. Presents interviews with Aurora Salamone, director of the Elderly Crime Victims Resource Center in New York City, and with Adele Welty, a social worker in the New York City Department for the Aging. Their views of what elder abuse is and how it occurs are presented. 7. “America’s Aging: Facts about the Elderly Population.” 1998. Public Management, May 1998, Vol. 80 Issue 5, p27. Content Select: General Interest, AN_563498. This article presents data and projections from the US Census Bureau providing insights about the elderly population in the US. It contrast data originally presented in a 1965 publication as a project to the current data. Trends and patterns are also presented.
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