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6 Oct 2014
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AIR Whiteboard: How Financially Well-Off Are America's Seniors?

After years of talking about America’s seniors as disproportionately poor, some commentators now characterize older Americans as better off than their younger counterparts.

True, older Americans have recovered faster from the recent recession than younger workers—fewer seniors work, so fewer were hit by unemployment and stagnant wages. But all is not rosy for seniors as a whole. While most are better off today than seniors were twenty years ago, many still live just above the poverty line, struggling to get by on dwindling savings while paying increasingly higher medical costs.

This AIR Whiteboard, narrated by Center on Aging director Marilyn Moon, presents an overview of the economic challenges seniors face today.

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6 May 2014
Brief

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The Changing Economic Status of Seniors

Recently, attention has focused on who is prospering in the challenging economic times the U.S. has faced in this early part of the 21st century. Are seniors faring better than younger families? AIR expert Marilyn Moon discusses the issue.
Topic: 
Health, Aging
5 Jun 2014
Commentary

An Open Letter to the New HHS Secretary: Medicare Challenges

Medicare expert and Institute Fellow Marilyn Moon offers her thoughts on program reforms and urges new HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to defend beneficiaries against unintended harm: “never forget that Medicare is a program for the elderly and disabled.”
Topic: 
Health, Aging

Further Reading

  • Medicare at 50: Conscientious Reform
  • The Changing Economic Status of Seniors
  • Marilyn Moon Demystifies Medicare Reform
  • AIR Experts on Aging to Present at the Gerontological Society of America’s 68th Annual Scientific Meeting
  • Long Story Short: Is 65 Still a Good Policy Benchmark for Aging?
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