The New Rules of Retirement
An Urban Institute 40th Anniversary Roundtable
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Older adults are faced with enormous uncertainties about retirement. Plummeting stock prices and falling home equity have cut into retirement nest eggs, while health care costs continue to rise—leaving many Americans with questions about work, retirement security, and health and long-term care.
Will there be jobs for older adults who want to work? Will there be meaningful ways to volunteer and give back to the community? Are baby boomers saving enough? What will Social Security and Medicare benefits cost all Americans? And will older adults be able to afford health and long-term care?
On December 2, 2008, Urban Institute convened a policy roundtable of leading experts on retirement and aging to explore how public policies might adapt to the needs of aging baby boomers and their children. Roundtable participants included national policy experts, senior Congressional and administration staff, nonprofit and business leaders, and press. The discussion was moderated by: Sheila Zedlewski, director of Urban Institute's Income and Benefits Policy Center, and editor of the Institute’s Perspectives on Productive Aging Series, and Howard Gleckman, Urban Institute senior research associate; editor, TaxVox, the blog of the Tax Policy Center; and author of "How Will We Care for Our Parents?" a forthcoming book on long-term care.
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