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The oldest members of the baby boom generation are now crossing the threshold of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare, with significant implications for these programs' fiscal sustainability. This book focuses on the relationship between health and financial well-being, especially as people age.

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Despite its increasing importance, the verification and validation of the human-machine interface is perhaps the most overlooked aspect of system development. Although much has been written about the design and developmentprocess, very little organized information is available on how to verifyand validate highly complex and highly coupled dynamic systems. Inability toevaluate such systems adequately may become the limiting factor in ou...

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In recent years, increases in the amount and changes in the distribution of air traffic have been very dramatic and are continuing. The need for changes in the current air traffic systems is equally clear. While automation is generally accepted as a method of improving system safety and performance, high levels of automation in complex human-machine systems can have a negative effect on total system performance and have been identified as cont...

With more than 10 years since the publication of the first edition, this updated version of the "Handbook of Aviation Human Factors" features three additional chapters that address new areas and approaches: resilience, uninhabited aerial vehicles, and aesthetics.

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The National Bureau of Economic Research has for over a decade sponsored the Economics of Aging Program, under the direction of David A. Wise. The Program addresses issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older persons. Advances in the Economics of Aging is the fifth in a series of volumes that report the results of the program's research. ...

The original essays and commentary in this volume--the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program--address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older persons. The contributors examine social security reform, including an analysis of the Japanese system, present the startling finding that the vast major...

For over a decade, the National Bureau of Economic Research has sponsored the Economics of Aging Program, under the direction of David A. Wise. The program addresses issues that affect the well-being of individuals as they age and a society that is composed increasingly of older people.Within the next twenty years, an unprecedented proportion of Americans will be over sixty-five. New research in the economics of aging is an essential element o...

Studies in the Economics of Aging" is the fourth book in a series from the National Bureau of Economic Research that addresses economic issues in aging and retirement. Building on the research in "The Economics of Aging" (1989), "Issues in the Economics of Aging" (1990), and "Topics in the Economics of Aging" (1992), this volume examines elderly population growth and government spending, life expectancy and health, saving for retirement and ho...

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