W. Andrew AchenbaumSafeguarding Social Security for Future Generations
Leaving a Legacy in an Aging Society
W. Andrew Achenbaum is a semiretired professor of history and gerontology in the Texas Medical Center, Houston. He served as Deputy Director of University of Michigan's Institute of Gerontology and as Professor of history, before he became founding dean of the University of Houston's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. A former board chair of the National Council on Aging, he has received several teaching and public service awards and won the Gerontological Society of America's highest honor, the Kent Lectureship. Achenbaum has published six books, coedited a dozen others, and written more than 200 peer-reviewed articles at the interface of the humanities and aging.
Introduction Part One: Communication Gaps across Generational Perspectives
1.Can Baby Boomers Leave a Meaning-filled Legacy to Millennials? 2.Social
Security Myths in an Age of Misinformation and Big Lies 3.Why Historical
Facts Matter When Interpreted Pragmatically 4.Risks, Rights, and
Responsibilities under Social Security Part Two: A Senior Historian's
Evolving Interpretations of Social Security 5.The Significance of the 1983
Social Security Amendments 6.Conservatives Create a Different Historical
Context for Social Security 7.Will Fears over a Pandemic, a Fractured
Political Economy, and Racism Stir New Hopes and Demand for Social-Security
Reforms? Part Three: Re-Thinking Social Security in Order to Become Change
Agents 8.Changing within Myself to Better Relate to Others 9.Negotiating
Solidarity, Sustainability, and Stewardship under Social Security
Conclusion
