What Do the Elderly Do?

Frederic L. Pryor

Forum for Social Economics, 2014, vol. 43, issue 2, 156-180

Abstract: The most direct way to find out what elderly Americans do is to study how they occupy their time and, if they are still in the labor force, in what occupations can they be found. This essay focuses on three key issues regarding the activities of those 65 and over: their average use of time in 41 different activities, especially how they employ the greater discretionary time available to them in comparison to younger adults; the factors underlying their rising participation in the labor in the first decade of the twenty-first century; and the occupations that elderly men and women are most likely to be found and how this has changed.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/07360932.2012.747978

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