What’s your vision of how you’ll spend your “golden years”? While the specifics differ from person to person, there may be something distinctly American about our society’s framing of aging, how our expectations around aging have evolved, and how that vision is being reimagined in the current economic and social landscape.
From the social movements underpinning Social Security and Medicare to the hit TV show “The Golden Girls,” James Chappel takes Due South on a journey through American aging, and what the future of aging in our country might look like. His new book is Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age.
Guest
James Chappel, Gilhuly Family Associate Professor of History at Duke University and author of Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
