The Financial Problems of the Elderly: A Holistic View

Victor Fuchs

Chapter 35 in Health Economics and Policy:Selected Writings by Victor Fuchs, 2018, pp 445-455 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be,” wrote Robert Browning in his poem Rabbi Ben Ezra. A century later, Robert Butler, a former director of the National Institute of Aging, took a more dismal view of aging, epitomized in the title of his book Why Survive? Being Old in America (1975). Why the change in perspective? One possible reason is that an elderly person was a rarity in Browning’s time; as the twentieth century drew to a close, however, mortality tables showed that three out of four Americans would reach the biblical “three score and ten.” Just being old no longer carries any special distinction…

Keywords: Health; Medical Care; Health Policy; Economics; Health Care Reform; Health Insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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