--Shows how young and old can collaborate in leaving a legacy that safeguards what works for U.S. citizens in the midst of U.S. polarized politics with an inequitable economy.
--Details way to mobilize transgenerational support to ensure that future stakeholders, including those not yet born, get benefits.
--Designed for use in courses on gerontology, social work, and public-policy courses, this book offers measured hope for leaving a legacy that safeguards what works for the common good.
W. Andrew Achenbaum is a semiretired professor of history and gerontology in the Texas Medical Center, Houston. He served as Deputy Director of University of Michigan's Institute of Gerontology and as Professor of history, before he became founding dean of the University of Houston's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. A former board chair of the National Council on Aging, he has received several teaching and public service awards and won the Gerontological Society of America's highest honor, the Kent Lectureship. Achenbaum has published six books, coedited a dozen others, and written more than 200 peer-reviewed articles at the interface of the humanities and aging.
Title: Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations: Leaving a Legacy in an Aging Society (Aging and Society)
Author: Achenbaum, W. Andrew
ISBN: 9781032386348
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2023-02-24
Number of Pages: 180
Weight: 0.3584 kg
This book provides a unique blend of historical scholarship about the origins and development of Social Security and practical suggestions for how Social Security might be reformed to meet its present challenges. The scholarship is impeccable throughout. The author has a strong grasp over the materials related to the history of Social Security and utilizes a very wide range of the philosophical and ethical writing on the subject. Andy Achenbaum is the leading historian of old age, and this book only solidifies his reputation. I have no doubt that the book would be useful to students in such fields as social work, gerontology, public policy and history.
Edward Berkowitz, George Washington University
Andrew Achenbaum is arguably the most important historian of later life in America we have ever known. With Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations he offers a framework for maintaining the value and vitality of what is arguably the most important social policy innovation we've ever enacted. In the process he's done something just as important; provided a model for pragmatic, transgenerational understanding, cooperation, and action, one that couldn't be more timely as this country enters a period of unprecedented age diversity. Buy this book, read it carefully, and use it as a roadmap for creating a better future for all generations.
Marc Freedman, Founder, Encore.org, and author, How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting The Generations
