The Age Wave: How The Most Important Trend Of Our Time Can Change Your Future - Softcover

Dychtwald Ph.D., Ken; Flower, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055334806X ISBN 13: 9780553348064

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1990

Synopsis

This book will change the way you act today and how you plan for tomorrow

The generation between the ages of thirty-five and fifty is the largest, most powerful, most influential generation in American history. This is the Age Wave - a revolution that is crashing through our culture, reforming our expectations, and changing the very meaning of aging. Here is the first comprehensive analysis of the consequences, now and in the next decades, of the aging Baby Boom - the most significant societal force of our day.The Cyclic Life-Style - new patterns of work and leisure that will expand our productive yearsReinventing the Family - living together and love in the post-childrearing yearsElderpower at the Polls - why national priorities and policies - including Social Security - must shift dramaticallyRedesigning America - new products and services for the booming "mature market"A Great Age - how to overcome the negative myths of aging and live a longer and healthier life.

About this title

Review:

"Provides a glimpse into the future like nothing we're ever seen."--USA Today

"Age Wave raises questions and consequences we never dreamed of. It will change your view of the future."--John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 055334806X
• ISBN 13: 9780553348064
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400