Old Age

In commenting on Professor O'Donnell's paper an appropriate take? off point is the link between old age and poverty. He did a fine job of baring the structural weaknesses and inept performance of income main? tenance plans, and of detailing the wretched poverty among the aged. As far as empirical data is concerned, there is a rich lode to work with. The Social Security Administration in general, and individuals like Mollie Orshansky in particular, have been dredging up invaluable data, concepts and relationships for a number of years. But through it all, one is nagged by doubts, by what seemed to be vital missing links which suggest that much of the society's arrangements for the aged simply hang in space. For convenience, they may be framed as two inter-related questions: Nagging Issue #1: do we (the society) really understand how poverty afflicts the aged ? Missing Link #2: do we really want to understand the link be? tween poverty and old age

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