This new edition of covers this broad subject in two comprehensive volumes, addressing the gap of content and scholarship that has been created in the nearly 20 years since the first edition. Arranged in alphabetical order, the essays cover issues that are of primary concern to older Americans and their families, including social interaction, cultural attitude, employment, family, finances, and physical changes. In addition to an extensive update of essays from the first edition, a number of significant new topics have been added, including: Aging Populations Drive Business Success; 21st Century Solutions to Aging; Work-Based Education; Reinvention of Aging Critical to National Fiscal Health; Longevity Dividend; Don't Call Them Old; and Advances in Prevention, Progression & Prognosis of Disease/Disability.