INDEX

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AARP: appeal to baby boomers

center-left political persona

civic engagement campaigns

coalition-building

commercial trust brand

conservative criticisms of

diversity mission

liberal criticisms of

“Life @ 50+” conferences

mission of

name change

Novelli background

origins of

power of

reorganization

role in senior power potential

Rother background. See also AARP consumer services

AARP policies on health care

AARP policies on Social Security/Medicare

AARP social policies; AARP warrior brand

“Life @ 50+” conferences

“AARP: Making Money, Losing Trust” (Bloomberg News)

AARP: The Magazine

AARP Bulletin

AARP consumer services: and AARP mission

criticisms of

and economic anxieties

and rebranding

and reorganization

and trust image

and warrior brand

AARP Financial Services

AARP Foundation

AARP Grassroots America

AARP Magazine

AARP policies on health care: and AARP blueprint publications

and age/race divide

conservative criticisms of

and diversity mission

“Divided We Fail” campaign

liberal criticisms of

Medicare Modernization Act

and presidential election (2008)

and rebranding

and single-payer system. See also AARP role in Obama administration health care reform

AARP policies on Social Security/Medicare: and AARP baby boomer appeal

blueprint publications

and Bush privatization reforms

conservative criticisms of

current issues

and health care reform

and rebranding

AARP rebranding

and baby boomer appeal

and consumer services

and diversity mission

and fiftieth anniversary

and policies on health care

AARP role in Obama administration health care reform

and age/race divide

and age split

criticisms of

current defense

and “Divided We Fail” campaign

donut hole reform

endorsement assumptions

and Medicare spending reductions

and public trust

and senior power potential

and Tea Party movement

AARP Services

AARP social impact agenda. See AARP warrior brand

AARP social policies: age discrimination

globalization

immigration. See also AARP policies on health care

AARP policies on Social Security/Medicare

AARP warrior brand

AARP VIVA

AARP warrior brand

and baby boomer appeal

and center-left persona

and consumer services

and member value goals

and role in Obama administration health care reform. See also AARP policies on health care

AARP policies on Social Security/Medicare

AARP role in Obama administration health care reform

Abramowitz, Alan

Achenbach, Joel

affirmative action

age cohorts

age discrimination

age/race divide

and AARP diversity mission

and AARP role in Obama administration health care reform

California as microcosm

and negative labeling of baby boomers

and Obama administration health care reform

and politics

and populism

progressive attempts to bridge

and public-private sector pension disparities

and senior power potential

and views on immigration. See also social cohesion/fragmentation

Aging Nation (Shulz & Binstock)

Alwin, Duane F.

American Association of Retired Persons. See AARP

American Seniors’ Association

Americans for Generational Equity

Americans for Stable Quality Care

Anders, George

Andrus, Ethel Percy

Angelou, Maya

Anrig, Greg

antitax populism. See populism

Antos, Joseph

Arends, Brett

Aubry, Jean-Pierre

baby boomer commonalities: and individualism

and mortality awareness

optimism

and popular culture

and senior power potential

and sixties social movements. See also baby boomer individualism; senior power potential

baby boomer generation: age divisions within

conservatism

defined

demographics

favorable views of

inequalities within

lack of political consciousness

as market

origins of

personality traits

size of. See also negative labeling of baby boomers

senior power potential

Baby Boomer Headquarters.com

baby boomer individualism

and AARP baby boomer appeal

and consensus

and marketing

and negative labeling

and responses to Great Recession

and senior power potential

and societal transformation

Bai, Matt

Baldwin, Bill

Balsamic Dreams (Queenan)

Barone, Michael

Beinart, Peter

Bennet, Michael

Bernstein, Carl

Better Health Care Together

“Betting on the Market” (PBS)

Binstock, Robert

Birth Quake (Macunavich)

Black, Lewis

Blake, Tom

blue-collar workers. See class divide

Bluestone, Barry

Bond, Julian

Boom! (Brokaw)

boomers. See baby boomer generation

Boomsday (Buckley)

Bowling Alone (Putnam)

Brady, David

Brazile, Donna

Brennan, John

Briand, Paul

Broder, David

Brokaw, Tom

Brooks, David

Brown, Jerry

Brown, Pat

Brown, Peter

Brownstein, Ronald

Buckley, Christopher

Burns, Ken

Burns, Scott

Bush, George W.: and class divide

and culture wars

and mistrust of government

and mortality awareness

and senior power potential

Social Security privatization proposals

Bush, Laura

Business Roundtable

California: America’s High-Stakes Experiment (Schrag)

California as microcosm

age/race divide

populism

California crisis

California Forward

Campbell, Andrea Louise

Canada

Canadian Association for Fifty-Plus (CARP)

Carville, James

Case, Steve

Case-Kirschling, Kathleen

Cato Institute

Cauchon, Dennis

A Changing Political Landscape (AARP)

Chernow, Ron

Chicago (band)

Citizens United

civic engagement campaigns

civic society. See social cohesion/fragmentation

Civic Ventures

civil rights movement. See sixties social movements

class divide: and AARP policy agenda

and baby boomer demographics

Canada

and early retirement

and education

globalization as cause of

and immigration

and inheritance

and negative labeling of baby boomers

and patriotism

and politics

and presidential election (2008)

regional patterns

and senior power potential

and sixties social movements

and social fragmentation

and Tea Party movement

and university communities

and views on globalization

class status: and attitudes toward retirement

and Great Recession. See also class divide

Clinton, Bill: and class divide

and health care reform

and mortality awareness

and negative labeling of baby boomers

and presidential election (2008)

and senior power potential

and sixties social movements

Clinton, Hillary. See also presidential election (2008)

Clurman, Ann

Cohen, Richard

Coile, Courtney

Cole, Natalie

Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility (Walker)

Coming Generational Storm, The (Kotlikoff & Burns)

Comte, Auguste

Concord Coalition

Connolly, Ceci

Conrad, Kent

consensus. See also baby boomer commonalities

senior power potential

conservatism

consumerism

Continetti, Mathew

convergence. See also baby boomer commonalities

senior power potential

Corporation for National and Community Services

corporations

and “Life @ 50+” conferences. See also retirement funding

risk shift

Cost, Jay

Craig, Larry

Cronkite, Walter

culture wars

Daneage (Denmark)

Daniels, Mitch

Daum, Meghan

Davis, Gray

de Passe, Suzanne

de Tocqueville, Alexis

death panel accusations

Decker, Cathleen

Deets, Horace

Delahanty, Hugh

delayed retirement

demographics: baby boomer generation

regional patterns. See also age/race divide

Didion, Joan

“Divided We Fail” campaign. See also AARP policies on health care

Dobbs, Lou

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

donut hole

Dowd, Maureen

Dreyfuss, Barbara

Durkheim, Emile

Dychtwald, Ken

early retirement

Ebeling, Andrea

Ebert, Roger

economic anxieties: and AARP consumer services

and attitudes toward retirement

and Great Recession

and senior power potential

and Tea Party movement. See also health care

risk shift

economic inequalities. See class divide

Edsall, Thomas

education: baby boomer demographics

California as microcosm

Eisenhower, Susan

Eisenhower cohort

Eldercare

elites. See class divide

An Empire Wilderness (Kaplan)

employment: baby boomer demographics

delayed retirement

public-private sector pension disparities

self-employment

telecommuting. See also retirement

risk shift

entitlements. See Social Security/Medicare

Eons.com

ethnic diversity: AARP mission

and social fragmentation. See also immigration

race

Families USA

family structure: and AARP baby boomer appeal

and baby boomer demographics

and civic engagement campaigns

and Great Recession

and risk shift

and societal transformation

famiy status

Farrell, Diana

Feld, Peter

feminism. See also sixties social movements

Fenacom (Italy)

Fields, Sally

50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America (Novelli)

Fineman, Howard J.

Fisher, Marc

Fisher, Patrick

Fitch, Stephanie

“Focalyst”

Forgive Us Our Debts (Yarrow)

401(k) accounts. See also retirement funding

French, Steve

Frey, William

Friedman, Thomas J.

Furlong, Mary

“Future Champions” AARP campaign

Gates, Bill

Gawiser, Sheldon

Gen Y (Millennial Generation)

gender: and AARP board

AARP diversity mission

and AARP membership

and baby boomer demographics

and baby boomers as market

and “Life @ 50+” conferences

Generation Ageless (Smith & Clurman)

Generation America

Generation X

Generation Zero (Citizens United)

generations: American classifications

concept of

Generations (Strauss & Howe)

Gillon, Steve

Gingrich, Newt

globalization

and AARP policies

and baby boomer class status

as cause of class divide

class divide as influence on views of

and immigration

and risk shift

and social cohesion/fragmentation

and societal transformation

Glover, Danny

Goldsmith, James

Gosselin, Peter

grandparents

Grassley, Charles

Gray Dawn (Peterson)

Great Recession

and AARP organizational identity

and attitudes toward retirement

and baby boomer class status

baby boomer responses to

California as microcosm

and civic engagement campaigns

and consensus

and economic anxieties

and family structure

and health care reform

impact on retirement funds

and lack of mass protest

and populism

real estate collapse

recovery possibilities

and risk shift

and senior power potential

and societal transformation

and unemployment

The Great Risk Shift (Hacker)

Greater Generation (Steinhorn)

Greatest Generation

Greenberg, Stanley

Greenwald, Mathew

Greenwald, Matt

Gregg, Judd

Gross, Michael

Gross V. FBL Financial Services

Hacker, Jacob

Hais, Michael D.

Handy, Joanne

Hansen, Jennie Chin

Hansen, Victor David

Harrington, Scott

health care: AARP services

and attitudes toward retirement

and baby boomer commonalities

California as microcosm

for public-sector workers

and risk shift

and self-employment. See also AARP policies on health care

risk shift

health care reform: and senior power potential

and Tea Party movement. See also AARP role in Obama administration health care reform

HealthActionNow.org

Healthy Economy Now

Heritage Foundation

Hewitt, Paul

Hill, Anita

Holtzman, Jody

How Policies Make Citizens (Campbell)

How to Talk to the Public about Health Care Reform (AARP)

Howe, Neil

Hughes, Mary Elizabeth

Hutton, Will

Ignatieff, Michael

immigration: AARP policies

age/race divide as influence on views of

avoidance of issue

California as microcosm

as cause of class divide

class divide as influence on views of

and Obama administration health care reform

regional patterns

and social fragmentation

and societal transformation. See also age/race divide

income levels

Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). See also retirement funding

individualism. See baby boomer individualism

inheritance

IRAs. See Individual Retirement Accounts

job loss. See unemployment

Johnson, Andrew

Jones, Landon

Jones, Larry W.

Jones, Quincy

Jong, Erica

Kamarck, Elaine

Kaplan, Robert

Katz, Richard

keepmedicarefair.org

Kennedy, Caroline

Kennedy, Ted

Kerkorian, Paul

Kerry, John

Khan, Chaka

Kinsley, Michael

Kohut, Andrew

Kotkin, Joel

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.

Kristof, Nicholas

Kristol, William

Lasch, Christopher

Leadership Council of Aging Organization

LeaMond, Nancy

Levine, Philip

Lewis, Jerry

“Life @ 50+” conferences

fiftieth anniversary

“Lifetuner” website

Light, Paul

Limbaugh, Rush

Lipset, Seymour Martin

The Lives and Times of Baby Boomers (Hughes & O’Rand)

The Long Baby Boom (Goldsmith)

Longman, Phillip

Luntz, Frank

Lusardi, Annamaria

MacKay, Carleen

MacManus, Susan A.

Macunavich, Diane

Maddow, Rachel

Mann, Jennifer

Mannheim, Karl

marijuana use

Marquardt, Elizabeth

marriage. See family structure

Marx, Karl

McCain, John. See presidential election (2008)

McCaughey, Betsy

“Me Generation” stereotype

Medicare: donut hole

Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act (1988)

Medicare Modernization Act (2003)

spending reduction proposals. See also AARP policies on Social Security/Medicare

Social Security/Medicare

Medigap insurance

Melnick, Mark

meritocracy

methodology

Meyer, Dick

Milbank, Dana

Millennial Generation (Gen Y)

Millennial Makeover (Winograd & Hais)

Mills, C. Wright

Mincer, Julian

minorities. See race

mistrust of government

and AARP baby boomer appeal

and baby boomer commonalities

and Bush administration

and “Divided We Fail”

campaign

increase in

and Obama administration

and single-payer health care system

and Tea Party movement

Mitchell, Olivia

Modern Maturity

Moore, Michael

Moore, Stephen

Morris, Charles

mortality awareness

Mulligan, Casey

Munnell, Alicia

music. See popular culture

My Generation (AARP)

Myers, Dowell

Nannis, Drew

National Coalition for Healthcare Reform

National Federation of Independent Businesses

National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA)

Neas, Ralph

negative labeling of baby boomers

and class divide

and individualism

and presidential election (2008)

and senior power potential

and sixties social movements

Nelson, Tom

Noonan, Peggy

Novelli, Bill: and AARP center-left political persona

and AARP policies on health care

and AARP power

and AARP rebranding

on baby boomer commonalities

background of

conservative criticisms of

and diversity mission

50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America

liberal criticisms of

and presidential election (2008)

retreat from agendas of

and risk shift

Obama, Barack: and baby boomers as market

and class divide

and Gen Y

and globalization

and mistrust of government

and negative labeling of baby boomers

and retirement funds

and senior power potential. See also AARP role in Obama administration health care reform

presidential election (2008)

occupational status. See employment

Okrent, Daniel

Olsen, Erik F.

One Nation after All (Wolfe)

Opdyke, Jeff

optimism

O’Rand, Angela M.

Organizing for America

Orszag, Peter

outsourcing. See globalization

Palin, Sarah

Pardo, Emilio

Parekh, Millie

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010). See health care reform

patriotism

Paulson, Hank

Peck, Don

Pelosi, Nancy

Penn, Mark

pension plans. See retirement funding

Pepper, Claude

Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Peterson, Peter

Petty, Richard

Pink, Daniel

political correctness

politics: AARP center-left persona

and age/race divide

and class divide

cohort effects

and Gen Y

and social fragmentation. See also senior power potential

Pollack, Ron

popular culture: and AARP baby boomer appeal

and AARP rebranding

and baby boomer commonalities

and California

intergenerational sharing

and “Life @ 50+” conferences

and negative labeling of baby boomers

and populism

populism: and age/race divide

California as microcosm. See also Tea Party movement

Porter, Jack

presidential election (2008): and AARP center-left political persona

and AARP policies on health care

and baby boomer stereotypes

and baby boomers as market

and class divide

and cohort effects

and economic anxieties

and Gen Y

and “Life @ 50+” conferences

and negative labeling of baby boomers

regional patterns

and senior power potential

and sixties social movements

“The Problem of Generations” (Mannheim)

Progressive era

progressivism

“Project Prepare” AARP campaign

Proposition 13 (California)

Proposition 187 (California)

Proposition 209 (California)

public-private sector pension disparities

Putnam, Robert

Quality Care Coalition

Queenan, Joe

race: and AARP board

AARP diversity mission

and AARP membership

and baby boomer demographics

and class divide

and education

and immigration

and “Life @ 50+” conferences

and Obama candidacy

and societal transformation

and Tea Party movement. See also age/race divide

immigration

Rand, A. Barry

Reagan, Ronald

real estate collapse. See also Great Recession

Reich, Robert

Reimagining America: How America Can Grow Old and Prosper (AARP)

Repair California

Restoring Fiscal Sanity (Rivlin & Antos)

retirement: attitudes toward

delayed

early

and economic anxieties

and mortality awareness

and occupational status. See also retirement funding

Social Security/Medicare

retirement funding: defined-benefit plans

impact of stock market crash on

lack of planning

planning for

private pension underfunding

public pension underfunding

public-private pension disparities

and risk shift. See also economic anxieties

risk shift

The Revolt of the Elites (Lasch)

Rich, Frank

Rider, Wynona

Riemer, Hans

Right Americans—Feeling Wronged

risk shift

and AARP policies

and family structure

and Great Recession

and health care

and retirement planning

Rivlin, Alice M.

Roberts, Sam

Robinson, Smokey

rock and roll. See popular culture

Roosevelt, Franklin

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rose, Charlie

Rother, John: and AARP baby boomer appeal

and AARP role in Obama administration health care reform

background of

and health care reform

on risk shift

on senior power potential

on Social Security/Medicare

Running on Empty (Peterson)

Russert, Tim

Samuelson, Paul

Samuelson, Robert J.

Savage, David

Savage, Luiza

Schilling, Chelsea

SCHIP (States Children’s Health Insurance Program)

Schrag, Peter

Schulz, James

Schumpeter, Joseph

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Seelye, Katherine Q.

Segunda Juventud

SEIU (Service Employees International Union)

self-employment

senior citizen discounts

senior organizations

senior power potential

AARP role

and age discrimination

and age/race divide

and attitudes toward retirement

and baby boomer lack of political consciousness

and class divide

consensus/convergence theories

as dormant

and economic anxieties

and Eisenhower cohort

and future entitlement conflict

and Gen Y

and Great Recession

and health care reform

and individualism

as myth

and negative labeling of baby boomers

and Obama candidacy

Republican views on

and senior organizations

and Social Security/Medicare

and tailored engagement

and Tea Party movement

Seniors Coalition

Serve America Act

Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Shepherd, Cybill

Sicko

Silent Generation

Simon, Paul

Simpson, Alan

single-payer health care

sixties social movements: and AARP policy agenda

and baby boomer commonalities

and baby boomer political consciousness

and consensus

and culture wars

and negative labeling of baby boomers

and presidential election (2008)

Sixty-Plus Association

Slon, Steve

Smith, Anna Deavere

Smith, J. Walker

Smith, Marie

Smith, Walter

Smothers Brothers

Snow, Tony

social cohesion/fragmentation

California as microcosm

civic engagement campaigns

and ethnic diversity

and globalization

and immigration

and senior power potential. See also age/race divide

class divide

Social Security. See AARP policies on Social Security/Medicare

Social Security/Medicare

Social Security/Medicare: attitudes toward

baby boomer attitudes toward

and baby boomer commonalities

baby boomer dependence on

bankruptcy predictions

donut hole

early benefit claims

future conflict

and immigration

origins of

and risk shift

and senior power potential

and Tea Party movement. See also AARP policies on Social Security/Medicare

social support networks. See also family structure

societal transformation

California as microcosm

historical concerns about

and immigration. See also age/race divide

class divide

globalization

risk shift

socioeconomic status. See class divide

Sociological San Andreas Fault Line. See age/race divide

Spengler, Oswald

Spielberg, Steven

Stanford, Percil

Starr, Kevin

States Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

Steinhorn, Leonard

Stern, Andy

Stern, Heather

Stevens, Paul

stock market crash (2008)

and AARP

and health care reform

and methodology

and pension plans

and risk shift. See also Great Recession

Strauss, William

Sullivan, Andrew

Sunbelt

Supercapitalism (Reich)

tailored engagement

talk radio

Tapscott, Mark

TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)

Tau, Rich

Taylor, James

Taylor, Jeff

Tea Party movement: and AARP policies on health care

and class divide

demographics

and economic anxieties

and mistrust of government

and senior power potential

and Social Security/Medicare

Teixeira, Ruy

telecommuting

television. See popular culture

Third Millennium

Tiagi, Amelia

Todd, Chuck

Tonnies, Ferdinand

triple divide. See age/race divide

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

trust. See mistrust of government

social cohesion/fragmentation

Underhill, Paco

unemployment: and age discrimination

early retirement

and individualism

and societal transformation

Union Democracy (Lipset)

United Healthcare. See AARP consumer services

United Seniors Association

USANext

Van Atta, Dale

Vanderkam, Laura

Vietnam War

Viguerie, Richard

Villaraigosa, Antonio

Viva su Segunda

Volcker, Paul

volunteerism. See civic engagement campaigns

vulnerability. See mortality awareness

Walker, David

Wall Street Journal. See also specific journalists

Walters, Dan

Warner, Judith

Warren, Elizabeth

warrior brand. See AARP warrior brand

Weber, Max

Wessel, David

Westheimer, Dr. Ruth

White Collar (Mills)

Whitman, Meg

Will, George

Williams, Brian

Williamson, John B.

Winerip, Michael

Winograd, Morley

Wolfe, Alan

Wolfe, Tom

The World Is Flat (Friedman)

Yardeni, Edward

Yarrow, Andrew L.

Zakaria, Fareed

Zogby, John

Zweig, Jason