John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University; author of The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and others.
Notes on Aging
For some years I have been giving thought to the matter of age and aging. This is partly because of the great recent, current, and prospective increase in the older population—a major change, especially impressive in the United States, to which two key factors have contributed. One is the imminent arrival in the older age brackets of the large number of people born in the immediate aftermath of World War II—the baby-boom generation, as it is less-than-attractively called. The other is the improvement in health care, both in provision for its cost, however still imperfect, and in medical and surgical ...(100 of 1542 words)