FALL 2009
The Great Recession: Implications for an Aging America

OUR GUEST EDITORS: Eric R. Kingson and Jennifer Hicks
The Economic Crisis: How Fare Older Americans?
By Jennifer Hicks and Eric R. Kingson

A Silver Lining to the Economic Crisis:
The Case for Improving Social Security and Medicare

By Nancy Altman

The Two-Legged Stool: The Reconfiguration of Risk in Retirement Income Security
By Pamela Herd

Encore Careers and the Economic Crisis
By David Bank

Changing Work, Retirement and Housing Patterns
By Jon Pynoos and Phoebe Liebig

Meeting the Needs of Economically Disadvantaged Older Adults:
A Holistic Approach to Economic Casework

By James Firman, Sandra Nathan, and Ramsey Alwin

The Moral Economy of Retirement
By Harry R. Moody

Foundation Giving and the Nonprofit Sector:
Turning the Economic Downturn into Opportunity

By Debra Sheets, Michael Marcus, and John Migliaccio

Intensifying Individual, Family, and Caregiver Stress:
Health and Social Effects of Economic Crisis

By Noreen Shugrue and Julie Robison

Time for an All-Generations Approach to Public Policy
By John M. Cornman, Eric R. Kingson, and Donna M. Butts

The Aging Network in Today's Economy
By Mike Burgess and Robert Applebaum

Remembering the Architects of the U.S. Social Security System:
A Dream Sustained 1935–2009

By Alice Hoffman

Is the Economic Crisis Driving Wedges Between Young and Old? Rich and Poor?
By Andrea Louise Campbell

A Boomer at Risk: A Tale in Personal, Cohort and Historical Perspective
By W. Andrew Achenbaum

Perspective from Another Time of Economic Turmoil:
Interview with a ‘Child of the Depression’

By Jennifer Hicks

Challenge and Resilience in Old Age
By Erlene Rosowsky

The Economic Meltdown and Old-Age Politics
By Larry Polivka and Carroll L. Estes

Sustainability and Integenerational Solidarity
By Andrew L. Yarrow

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