Aging and Technological Advances

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Aging and Technological Advances: Introduction

   1. Aging and Technological Advances: Introduction

      • Pauline K. Robinson, James E. Birren

      Pages 1-3

3. Aging in a Technological Society: Desiderata and Dilemmas in Decision-Making

   1. Aging in a Technological Society: Desiderata and Dilemmas in Decision-Making

      • Ida Hoos

      Pages 5-20

4. The Next 25 Years: Impact Expectations from Technology on Aging

   1. The Next 25 Years: Impact Expectations from Technology on Aging

      • Earl C. Joseph

      Pages 21-29

5. Attitudes and Perceptions of Older People toward Technology

   1. Attitudes and Perceptions of Older People toward Technology

      • Cyril F. Brickfield

      Pages 31-38

6. Labor Force Participation

   1. Aging and Labor Force Participation

      • Robert L. Clark

      Pages 39-54

   2. Demographic Trends Affecting the Age Structure of the Labor Force: 1950 to 2000

      • Howard N. Fullerton Jr.

      Pages 55-74

   3. Older Workers: Force of the Future?

      • Cynthia Taeuber

      Pages 75-87

   4. Changes in Labor Force Participation of Persons 55 and Over Since World War II: Their Nature and Causes

      • Richard A. Easterlin, Eileen M. Crimmins, Lee Ohanian

      Pages 89-97

   5. Technological Change and the Labor Market Situation of Older Workers

      • Paul J. Andrisani, Steven H. Sandell

      Pages 99-111

   6. Impact of Technological Change on Middle-Aged and Older Workers: Parallels Drawn from a Structural Perspective

      • Jon Hendricks

      Pages 113-124

   7. Recent Trends in Retirement Policy and Practice in Europe and the USA: An Overview of Programmes Directed to the Exclusion of Older Workers and a Suggestion for an Alternative Strategy

      • Bernard Casey

      Pages 125-137

   8. The Australian Labour Market for Older Workers

      • Andre J. Kaspura, Lynne S. Williams

      Pages 139-149

   9. The Social Consequences of Rapid Technological Change

      • Margaret E. Kuhn

      Pages 151-154

   10. Aging and Technological Advances: Labor Force Participation

       • Sally Coberly, Malcolm Morrison

       Pages 155-158

7. Health and Stress

   1. Ecology, Aging and Health in a Medical Perspective

      • Alvar Svanborg

      Pages 159-168

   2. The Compression of Morbidity

      • James F. Fries

      Pages 169-187

   3. Aging, Health, Stress and Technology in the Work Context: Concepts and Issues

      • Ilene C. Siegler, Linda K. George

      Pages 189-194

   4. Technological Change and the Aging of Working Capacity

      • Roy J. Shephard

      Pages 195-207

   5. Sources of Occupational Stress among Older Workers

      • Cary L. Cooper

      Pages 209-219

The chapters and reports in this publication have been selected from presentations at a Symposium on "Aging and Technological Advances" held in August, 1983 at the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center of the University of Southern California. The Symposium was made possible by a grant from the NATO Special Programme Panel on Human Factors, and the support of this program is gratefully acknowledged. Members of the Symposium Advisory Board were James E. Birren, Judy Livingston, Erhard Olbrich, Victor Regnier, Pauline Robinson, Thomas Singleton, Arnold Small, Harvey Sterns, and Alvar Svanborg. Professor Lambros Houssiadas also provided invaluable encouragement. Appreciation is also extended to the Andrew Norman Institute for Advanced Study in Gerontology and Geriatrics for support of planning activities leading up to the Symposium and for support of events surrounding the Symposium itself. A generous gift from The UPS Foundation to the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center made possible the compilation, editing and preparation of this manuscript and helped to support Symposium ac ti vi ties. We thank David Bergstone and Mary Margaret Ragan who together carefully and skillfully organized and carried out the typing of the manuscript.

• UPS
• aging
• decision-making
• demography
• development
• ecology
• environment
• iron
• perception
• quality
• sex
• society
• structure
• system
• telecommunications

• Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Pauline K. Robinson, Judy Livingston, James E. Birren

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