Word: gerontologist
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...amenities into a lonely paradise. In a mid-1990s study of 1,500 retirees from a FORTUNE 500 company who settled in the southeastern U.S., the participants answered overwhelmingly that they had not planned well enough for their emotional needs or how they would spend their time, reports gerontologist Marlene M. Rosenkoetter, dean of the school of nursing at the Medical College of Georgia...
Rosenkoetter identifies six areas in which emotional fulfillment is critical to a happy retirement: roles, relationships, self-esteem, support groups, life structure and use of time. Friendship, she notes, is an ingredient in all of them. And, observes gerontologist Rosemary Blieszner of Virginia Tech, a host of studies conducted in the past decade indicate retirees who enjoy a rich social life with family and friends tend to be healthier...
...This now affects many more families," reports Donna Wagner, a professor of gerontology at Towson University in Maryland. "Being a caregiver is becoming normative in the work force." It is also becoming even more common among nonworking spouses, who have traditionally taken this role. Sandra Timmermann, a gerontologist at MetLife's Mature Market Institute, notes that 75% of caregivers are women: "Often just as women are ready to break out with their own careers, an elderly parent's needs intervene. It leaves the marriage in the lurch...
What spells the difference between couples like the Lowrys and those who feel torn apart by the burden? One factor is a couple's goals at the start of their marriage, suggests David Leckey, 53, a writer and the husband of Margaret Neal, 49, a gerontologist who studies caregiving. "If you go into a marriage thinking, 'This is about me and my wife,' family is a drag on that. We're into the idea of the extended family, that it's all part of the package," he says of his marriage of 13 years. Three years ago, Leckey supported...
...probably thinking that you really can't take any more boomer solipsism. You've already suffered through a lifetime of references to Woodstock and the Beach Boys and Vietnam. You've gritted your teeth as you endured the preening, self-congratulatory smugness that leads Ken Dychtwald, a gerontologist who has lately made his living warning about the coming boomer bust, to say, "Boomers feel superior to the younger generations. It wouldn't even occur to boomers...