1978).AlsoC.HaberandB.Gratton,OldAgeandthe
SearchforSecurity:AnAmericanSocialHistory(Indiana
University Press, 1994).
17 the poet Emily Dickinson: C. A. Kirk, Emily
Dickinson: A Biography(Greenwood Press, 2004).
18 surviving into old age was uncommon: R.
Posner,AgingandOldAge(UniversityofChicagoPress,
1995), see ch. 9.
18 Theytendedtomaintaintheirstatus...Whereas
todaypeopleoftenunderstate:Fischer,GrowingOldin
America.
18 InAmerica,in1790:A.Achenbaum,OldAgein
the New Land(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979).
18 today,theyare 14 percent:UnitedStatesCensus
Bureau, http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/
00000.html.
18 In Germany, Italy, and Japan: World Bank,
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS.
18 100 million elderly: “China’s Demographic
Time Bomb,” Time, Aug. 31, 2011,
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/
0,8599,2091308,00.html.
18 As for the exclusive hold: Posner, ch. 9.
18 increased longevity has brought: Haber and
Gratton, pp. 24–25, 39.
20 Historians find that the elderly... The radical
concept of “retirement”: Haber and Gratton.