ABSTRACT

In this chapter we provide an introduction and overview of the topic of aging and work in the 21st century. To accomplish this, we describe trends in population aging and workforce participation patterns leading to the workforce growing older on average. Next, we describe how the text unfolds by highlighting some of the key findings and issues raised by each set of chapter authors. We hope that by providing such an overview the reader will come to see the whole of this text as something more than a collection of individual chapters.