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Aging America, Thomas L. Shaffer
Aging America, Thomas L. Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
Professor Sarah Harper's assessment of the legal, political,
medical, and economic issues associated with old age in the
United States heralded the theme for this Symposium, "Aging
America." Her analysis turns, as she puts it, on "a fundamental
shift in the demographic structure of society. No longer will it be
the norm to have large numbers of young and small numbers of
old,"1 as it was when I was a boy (age 11 on V.J. Day, 1945).
"Rather, we are entering a world where age groups will be distributed
more or less equally across society-an age-symmetric society."
2 Soon, America …