Reveals the mismatch between the availability of the strengths and capabilities of the rapidly increasing aging population and the shortage of productive and meaningful opportunities for these people to accomplish their potential. Examines the complex problems in bringing opportunity structures into greater congruence with what technology and medical advances have made feasible within an extended active life span and offers possible solutions.
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Matilda White Riley was an American gerontologist who began working at Rutgers University as a Research Specialist before becoming a professor from 1950 to 1973. Here she wrote a textbook and discovered her interest in aging. Robert L. Kahn is the editor of Age and Structural Lag: Society's Failure to Provide Meaningful Opportunities in Work, Family, and Leisure, published by Wiley.
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