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GE, GI, and the future of our safety net
Generational Equity versus Generational Interdependence represents two conflicting theories of how we, as a society, consume government benefits, specifically social security and Medicare.   Generational Equity (GE) posits that children, younger adults, and older adults are in some competition for societal resources. GE proponents argue that this situation becomes more...
Two theories of aging
There are a lot of theories about how we age, what we as older adults are supposed to be like, or how we change physically, socially, psychologically, etc. Two that we studied in one of my intro Gerontology courses are Activity and Detachment Theory. It’s worth mentioning because they are...
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