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This collection draws together 52 newspaper, journal, and periodical articles on aging in America, published between 2007 and 2013. They address statistics on major health issues, the demographics of the population, the availability of health care in the future, and other topics; economic issues, including rising medical costs, the shortage of caregivers, poverty among seniors, and retiree health care; caring for elder parents, including financial burdens, guilt, and the emphasis on daughters providing care; redefining the senior years, with discussion of the changing perception of age, technology use, entrepreneurship, medical advances and life extension, and death and dying; how living longer is advancing medicine and health care, including innovations in medical treatment and health technology; and America's response to an aging population in comparison to other countries. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)