The next two decades will mark a new phase in the demographic transition of the United States as baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. Drawing on evidence from the United States and other nations, "Explorations in the Economi...

The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in "Research Findings in the Economics of Aging", a group of leading rese...

This title presents a groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as "the witchcraft disease". When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made...