Getting Older: How We're Coping with the Grey Areas of Aging

by Bloomberg News

Overview

A special compilation of 13 Bloomberg News stories about the elderly on topics such as sex, jobs, and retirement. This package includes the following stories:

• At 77 He Flips Burgers Earning Former Hourly Wage in Week
• Grandma on Feeding Tube Without Consent Symbolizes Aging Japan
• Boomer Sex With Dementia Foreshadowed in Nursing Home Torn Apart
• Germans Exporting Grandma to Poland as Costs Converge With Care
• Doctor Helps Grandma Die to Avoid Fate of 260,000 Japanese on Feeding Tube
• Aging Boomers Stump Global Marketers Eyeing $15 Trillion Prize
• Death Dinners at Baby Boomers’ Tables Take on Taboo Over Dying
• Sex With Dementia Facing Boomers Spurs Elderly Care Group to Seek Policies
• At 61 She Lives in Basement While 87-Year-Old Dad Travels World
• Boomers as Retail Clerks Shows Why Greenspan Saw Low Growth Era
• Sex in Geriatrics Sets Hebrew Home Apart as Boomers Seize Days
• Older Americans Shun Retirement at 65 for Risky Startups: Jobs
• How a 91-Year-Old Geek Helped Keep the Elderly Independent

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118936542
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/16/2014
Series:	Bloomberg
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

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Table of Contents

Symbolizes Japan 15
Kanoko Matsuyama

CHAPTER 4 Boomer Sex with Dementia Foreshadowed in Nursing Home 39
Bryan Gruley

CHAPTER 5 Germans Export Grandma to Poland as Costs, Care Converge 55
Naomi Kresge

CHAPTER 6 Doctor Helps Grandma Die to Avoid Japanese Feeding Tube 71
Kanoko Matsuyama

CHAPTER 7 Aging Boomers Befuddle Marketers Aching for $15 Trillion Prize 85
Matthew Boyle

CHAPTER 8 Death Dinners at Baby Boomers’ Tables Take on Dying Taboo 95
Shannon Pettypiece

CHAPTER 9 Sex in Geriatrics Sets Hebrew Home Apart in Elderly Care 103
Bryan Gruley

CHAPTER 10 At 61, She Lives in Basement While 87-Year-Old Dad Travels 117
Carol Hymowitz

CHAPTER 11 Boomers as Retail Clerks Show Why Greenspan Saw Low-Growth Era 127
David J. Lynch

CHAPTER 12 How a 91-Year-Old Geek Helped Keep the Aged Independent 143
Esmé E. Deprez and Matthew Boyle

CHAPTER 13 Sex among Dementia Patients Spurs Call for Policies 153
Bryan Gruley

CHAPTER 14 Ten Questions to Ask for Your Later Years 159
Carol Hymowitz and Margaret Collins

Index 163