Grand Challenges of Our Aging Society Workshop Summary (2010) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 55-60
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Because elderly people are embedded in their families, communities, and society, he argued, old-age policies are in effect family policies, affecting the whole social fabric. Social Security benefits and other retirement income allow seniors to care for grandchildren; proper health care for older people affects not only these individuals but also their families and communities in many ways.
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His final suggestion was much greater attention to and funding for longitudinal studies so as to ground a life-course perspective on many issues of physical and cognitive health, income and productivity, meaning and engagement, and community involvement over the entire life span. James Jackson of the University of Michigan offered several observations and insights.
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For example, noting that people generally fail to consider or prepare endof-life directives, Torrey speculated that this could be a requirement for getting a driver's license. Or perhaps the annual mailing from the Social Security Administration estimating an individual's benefits at different retirement ages could also offer varying estimates of life expectancy for that individual reflecting different health behaviors, such as excessive weight gain or tobacco use.
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Despite substantial knowledge regarding what constitutes healthy behavior or wise economic choices, and despite carefully designed interventions and programs, people often do not act rationally, do not make the necessary changes, or do not maintain positive changes once they are achieved. In the final discussion, one participant referred to this recurring theme and thought a cross-disciplinary study of behavior change, incorporating work from psychology, economics, medicine, engineering, and other fields, would be useful.
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They cited broad data that intergenerational conflict over budget resources are not occurring, as well as the results of specific programs in which, for example, resources provided to grandmothers generate improved outcomes for grandchildren. In effect, these speakers advocated taking a life-course perspective to families, communities, and societies as well as to aging individuals.
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