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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Govern-
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Committee on an Aging Society (U.S.)
Productive roles in an older society.
(America's aging)
"This report . . . presents the papers commissioned for a symposium on productive
roles in an aging society"-Pref.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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COMMITTEE ON AN AGING SOCIETY
ROBERT W. BERLINER (Chairman), Dean, School of Medicine, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut
PHILIP H. AsE~soN, Editor, Science, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.
WILLIAM G. BELL, Professor of Gerontology and Director,
Multidisciplinary Center on Gerontology, Florida State
University, Tallahassee, Florida
ROBERT H. BiNsTocK, Professor of Law and Politics, Heller
School, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
KAREN Davis, Professor of Health Services Administration, The
Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public
Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Tacos J. FELDMAN, Associate Director for Analysis and
Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics,
Hyattsville, Maryland
JAMEs A. JosEPH, President and Chief Executive Officer, Council
on Foundations, Washington, D.C.
F. PETER LIBASST, Senior Vice-President, Travelers Insurance
Company, Hartford, Connecticut
GEORGE C. MYERS, Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for
Demographic Study, Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina
BERN~cE L. NEUGARTEN, Professor of Education and Sociology,
School of Education, Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois
ALAN PIFER, President, The Carnegie Corporation of New York,
New York, New York
DON K. Price, Professor of Public Management, Emeritus, John
F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
EtizAsETH Russets, Senior Staff Scientist, Jackson
Laboratories, Bar Harbor, Maine
H. GUYFORD STEVER, Chairman, Commission on Engineering
and Technical Systems, National Research Council,
Washington, D.C.
T. FRANKLIN Williams, Medical Director, Monroe Community
Hospital, Rochester, New York
This list shows affiliations of members at the time of their service with the com
mittee.
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COMMITTEE ON AN AGING SOCIETY
Study Staff
ENRIQUETA C. BOND, Study Director and Director, Division of
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
DAVID Tucson, Study Director until September 1983
LINDA DEPUGH, Administrative Secretary
Consultant
GERALD S. SCHATZ
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Preface
Substantial increases in the number and proportion of older
persons in the decades ahead portend significant changes in
American society. Indeed, demographic projections of a popula-
tion rapidly growing older have led some observers to character-
ize the United States as an "aging society."
The ways in which an aging society might be a different soci-
ety, in other than demographic characteristics, are not entirely
clear. But it is evident that the changing age distribution of the
population will have major implications, at the very least, for the
following:
· financing, development, organization, and use of health care
systems;
· patterns of family life, social relations, cultural institutions,
living arrangements, and physical environments;
· distribution of jobs among older and younger workers, as
well as the earnings, status, and satisfaction that these jobs may
provide, within the context of age discrimination laws, seniority
practices, and technological innovation;
· economic aspects of providing retirement income through
various public and private mechanisms;
· quality of life of the population throughout the life course
including functional-status, well-being, legal status, and per-
sonal autonomy; and
· an ever-shifting agenda of related public policy issues.
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V1
PREFACE
If we are to deal effectively with these issues, our current under-
standing of the specific implications for older and younger per-
sons, for age relations, and for the institutions of our society-
must be expanded.
The Committee on an Aging Society was organized to identify
selected issues that need to be confronted, both soon and over the
longer term. Recognizing that many organizations and ad hoc
groups have been addressing a range of issues associated with
aging and with older persons as an age group, the committee has
attempted to emphasize broader societal issues as well. From
among those issues the Committee on an Aging Society suggests
topics that warrant systematic investigations fostered by the
National Research Council, the Institute of Medicine, and other
organizations. It is the committee's belief that such investiga-
tions of these topics will provide a basis for action by policyma-
kers in both the private and public sectors.
This volume is the second report in a series, called America's
Aging, in which the committee calls attention to issues that
emerged from symposia convened to explore selected topics.
Other reports or proposed symposia focus on health in an aging
society, the social and built environment, and legal and ethical
issues.
This report summarizes the committee's recommendations and
the discussions on which they were based and presents the
papers commissioned for the May 1983 Symposium on Unpaid
Productive Roles in an Aging Society. Because many other
groups have addressed the labor force participation of older per-
sons, the committee chose to focus on unpaid productive roles to
which less attention has been given.
FREDERICK C. Rosins
President
Institute of Medicine
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Contents
SUMMARY . . . . . . . . e · · · · · · · · · e · · e
introduction, 1
Unpaid Productive Roles, 6
Characteristics of Older Americans, 10
Older Americans AS a Societal Resource, 15
Conclusions and Recommendations, 20
Bibliography, 22
THE ECONOMICS OF VOLUNTEERISM: A REVIEW
Carol Jusenius Romero
THE OLDER VOLUNTEER RESOURCE ..............
Harold A. Kieffer
UNPAID PRODUCTIVE ACTIvITY OVER THE FIFE COURSE
dames N. Morgan
SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF FUTURE UNPAID
PRODUCTIVE ROLES ................
George C. Myers, Kenneth G. Manton,
and Helena BaceZlar
INDEX
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