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1Introduction American society is continuing to experience a demographic transformation thatwill have far-reaching consequences in areas such as health care, retirement,housing, and transportation. For the entire 20th century, the growth rate in the number of Americans over 65 greatly exceeded the growth rate of the population as a whole.
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Fertility in every developed nation has fallen beneath the replacement rate of 2.1 (Center for Strategic and International Studies and Watson Wyatt Worldwide 2000)
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INTRODUCTION 3 FIGURE 1 Squaring of the U.S. population pyramids, 1960–2020.
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in disability for all income groups (Coughlin 2002)
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Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Ga., 48(SS8)
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