ABSTRACT

America is aging. The baby boom generation has become the elder boom generation, and the number of older adults in the United States will more than double between 2010 and 2050 and increase from 13% of the population to 20% (Grayson & Velkoff, 2010). This has fueled great concern about the viability of the social security system, about the sustainability of Medicare, and about the availability of a workforce to provide health and social services to people of all ages.