Resource:
Young Retirees and Older Workers

Data Profiles

Understanding the characteristics of people who leave the labor force at relatively younger ages and who work into their later years may help make predictions about the retirement of baby boomers.

The National Academy on an Aging Society highlights characteristics of young retirees and older workers in a series of brochures.The brochures have details such as charts, graphs, data from studies.

Titles include:

Who Are Young Retirees and Older Workers?
How Financially Secure Are Young Retirees and Older Workers?
How Healthy Are Young Retirees and Older Workers?
Do Young Retirees and Older Workers Differ by Race?
What Are the Attitudes of Young Retirees and Older Workers?
What Benefits Do Young Retirees and Older Workers Receive?

SPONSORED BY: the National Academy on an Aging Society, a Washington-based nonpartisan policy institute of the Gerontological Society of America.

For more information about the brochures, contact the Academy at: info@agingsociety.org The brochure is currently available either as hard copy (contact the Academy at 1030 15th St., NW, Suite 250, Washington, DC 20005, 202-842-1275, fax: 202-842-1150, or at info@agingsociety.org) or as Adobe Acrobat pdf files (go to the National Academy webpage at www.agingsociety.org/agingsociety/publications/young/index.html ) Click on the individual brochure titles.

Publishing of the Data Profiles: Young Retirees and Older Workers brochures is supported by a grant from the AARP Andrus Foundation.