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Summary: Insightful and Important
Review: As our nation's health care policy is debated, Ken Dychtwald's book is critically important if we are to address the problems of the future and not just the politics of the moment. He offers those concerned with the process of meeting the needs of all Americans vital insights into our future and the alternatives we must face.
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Summary: I really enjoyed this book!
Review: Bought this at the airport bookstore and read it on the plane - couldn't put it down. I recommend Age Power to anyone who doesn't stick their head in the sand - especially those worried about the future (or non-future!) of their Social Security benefits. Very eye-opening!
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Summary: I recommend Age Power
Review: Dychtwald and Peterson (Grey Dawn) both write on the mature market place and the mass aging of societies - intriguing stuff. I really enjoyed the chapter of the future of aging - and how the policies and paradigms we follow today will impact the future of the human race.
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Summary: A wake up call. The aging boomer's impact on all of us.
Review: Dychtwald presents hard data to build the case for the need for all of us to prepare for the impact of the boomer bulge in the aging population. He recommends actions we can take as individuals. They may apply more to boomers than to geezers like me, but he is on target. There is a political subtext which suggests the need for political awakening to respond, something like a revitalized Gray Panthers, The Almost Gray Panthers. The vision must be broader than that offered by AARP or by boomers concerned about taking care of themselves. Dychtwald is underscoring a national issue which will affect all of us. Read this book. Become engaged.
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Summary: Immortality for sale
Review: Dychtwald raises the intriguing question of: who will be able to afford longevity? As medical technology advances, lives will be increasingly lengthened through bionic and computerized implants - but only to those who can pay for them...telomerase manipulation may pave the road to immortality but only the truly rich will be able to pass the tollbooth...
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Summary: A interesting book
Review: Dychtwald's "Age Power" is a fascinating book about the implications that will come from the aging of 78 million baby boomers. As other reviewers have noted I was extremely interested on the social aspects of the aging of the boomers in the coming decades. What will the future look like in the United States and other industrialized nations in 2025? Will the boomers still influence society as greatly as they do now? Dychtwald believes that they will, and to prepare for the next millennium, boomers need to ensure that they will be financially secure. Dychtwald provides interesting questions and answers for this generation.Not to disparage the book, but I felt that Dychtwald could have focused more on Anti-Aging technology that is currently being developed. As with computer technology, the biotech industry is progressing at great leaps. And with the Human Genome Project being completed in either 2002 or 2003, anti-aging therapies willsure follow. If they do, the aging of the boomers will not be a huge problem since retirement would be eradicated with the anti-aging treatments. The Baby boomers would then need not worry about aging as they (and their pets [dogs, cats, etc.]) would live long and healthy lives, probably indefinitely. Still, one must ponder what role will the Baby Boomers play in the 21st century.
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Summary: An insightful read that doesn't sugar coat it
Review: Good to read a book that recognizes the impact of the aging boomer population and the gift of expanded longevity but is not afraid to warn us of what might happen if we don't take steps now. The author does a good job outlining solutions to the problems we face and like how he provides hints on how we can personally "age proof" our lives. The chapter on "The Caregiving Crunch" really hit home, having two parents in an assisted living home. Made me think -- which is what a good book should do.
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Summary: Age Power is super-charged with insights, trends and facts.
Review: I have followed this author's work for many years and this is his best book yet!I would heartily recomend it. Ken Dychtwalds' book Age Power is the most comprehensive and insightful analysis of the impact of the Baby Boomers on society. Written in an informative manner for the general reader, I found his book fresh with ideas about how to understand the landscape of the future. From the impact on health care, business, economics and education, the "New Old" will rule, accordingly to Dychtwald, and after reading this thoughtful book I now know how. I found his suggestions for how to influence this future to be very interesting. He makes a convincing case for a higher level of social responsibility required by the aging baby boomers as we move into the 21st century. Age Power is a book that I will refer back to for a long time. I will use it as a guide for my personal and business planning.
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Summary: Had to put it down.
Review: I just had to put this one down! This was one useless book in my opinion. I purchase it for its alleged value to the business person. I just didn't get how the content was applicable to selling to the aging or where the author came up with some of his ideas. I would be inclined to agree with the readers from California. This was one dry and pointless piece of fiction.
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Summary: Had to put it down.
Review: I just had to put this one down! This was one useless book in my opinion. I purchase it for its alleged value to the business person. I just didn't get how the content was applicable to selling to the aging or where the author came up with some of his ideas. I would be inclined to agree with the readers from California. This was one dry and pointless piece of fiction.
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