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Growing Older in America: The Health and Retirement Study

This publication is about one major resource — the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) — designed to inform the national retirement discussion as the population so dramatically ages. Since its launch in 1992, the HRS has painted a detailed portrait of America’s older adults, helping us learn about this growing population’s physical and mental health, insurance coverage, financial situations, family support systems, work status, and retirement planning. Through its unique and in-depth interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults over the age of 50, the HRS provides an invaluable, growing body of multidisciplinary data to help address the challenges and opportunities of aging.

• Introduction: Preface, List of Figures and Tables; Overview
• Chapter 1: Health
• Chapter 2: Work and Retirement
• Chapter 3: Income and Wealth
• Chapter 4: Family Characteristics and Intergenerational Transfers
• Chapter 5: The Future; References; Appendices
  
  
• Complete document in .zip format (4MB).

Note: This document is in PDF format.