JOHN GLENN, Ohio SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING DAVID PRYOR, Arkansas, Chairman BILL BRADLEY, New Jersey HERBERT KOHL, Wisconsin JOHN HEINZ, Pennsylvania PETE V. DOMENICI, New Mexico NANCY LANDON KASSEBAUM, Kansas PORTIA PORTER MITTELMAN, Staff Director (II) PREFACE As the population of older Americans grows, so does the need and desire for comprehensive and current statistics on this important segment of our society. The Aging Committee is pleased to help meet this need by updating and providing the fourth edition of "Aging America: Trends and Projections." Elizabeth Vierck, staff consultant to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, revised this edition of "Aging America." Her hard work on this project produced what we believe to be a fine product. The Committee would like to thank Don Fowles of the Administration on Aging, Deborah Chollet of the Employee Benefit Retirement Institute, Tom Gabe of the Congressional Research Service, Constance Swank of the American Association of Retired Persons, and Pam Felker of the Colorado Gerontological Society for their substantial contributions to the revision. The Committee would also like to thank the staffs of the following agencies for providing updated material: the Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Department of Labor. We hope readers of this year's edition will find it to be informative and interesting. We believe it and publications like it contribute to assuring that consumers, policymakers, advocates, providers, insurers, and the media have access to greatly needed and updated information on the fastest growing segment of our population. (III) DAVID PRYOR, Ranking Minority Member. |