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The Aging of the World's Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation
Scribner
October 2010
On Sale: October 19, 2010
416 pages
ISBN: 1416551026
EAN: 9781416551027
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of China, Inc. reports
on the astounding economic and political ramifications of an
aging world. The world’s population is rapidly aging—by the year 2030,
one billion people will be sixty-five or older. As the ratio
of the old to the young grows ever larger, global aging has
gone critical: For the first time in history, the number of
people over age fifty will be greater than those under age
seventeen. Few of us understand the resulting massive
effects on economies, jobs, and families. Everyone is
touched by this issue—parents and children, rich and poor,
retirees and workers—and now veteran journalist Ted C.
Fishman masterfully and movingly explains how our world is
being altered in ways no one ever expected. What happens when too few young people must support older
people? How do shrinking families cope with aging loved ones? What happens when countries need millions of young workers
but lack them? How do companies compete for young workers?
Why, exactly, do they shed old workers? How are entire industries being both created and destroyed
by demographic change? How do communities and countries
remake themselves for ever-growing populations of older
citizens? Who will suffer? Who will benefit? With vivid and witty reporting from American cities and
around the world, and through compelling interviews with
families, employers, workers, economists, gerontologists,
government officials, health-care professionals, corporate
executives, and small business owners, Fishman reveals the
astonishing and interconnected effects of global aging, and
why nations, cultures, and crucial human relationships are
changing in this timely, brilliant, and important read.
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