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Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America
 Order Now > "(An) inspiring, informative, mind-opening book."
- The New York Times
"Marc Freedman is onto something big in Prime Time."
- The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Editor's Recommendation
Prime Time includes stories and portraits by renowned photographers Alex Harris and Thomas Roma of people across the country serving as role models for continued contribution in later life.
These people are debunking the prevailing conception of "elderly," "senior citizens," and the "aged" – all terms that do a poor job describing the diverse group of people in the third stage of life. The publication of Prime Time contributes to a new vision for later life that is a win-win situation for older adults and American society. Paperback: 304 pages ; Dimensions: 0.77 x 9.23 x 6.11 (inches) Publisher: PublicAffairs; (March 2002) ISBN: 1586481207 |
Marc Freedman, President of Civic Ventures, is the author of Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America, published by Public Affairs.
When Freedman first conceived of the book, it was as a response to the excessively narrow and overwhelmingly negative portrayal of America's aging, focused almost entirely on fiscal issues and the solvency of federal entitlement programs. The goal of Prime Time is to expand the picture so that we become more aware of the potential opportunity present in the aging society, and to create new roles for older Americans to make their time, talent, and experience available for strengthening communities. Profiled in Prime Time:After retiring from his career with the city of Philadelphia, Harold Allen began teaching prison inmates the skills they would need to find work after being released. In his early 60s he retired for a second time and joined Experience Corps, where he tutors children at the Taylor Elementary School in North Philadelphia...more >  Aggie Bennett & Louise CaseyAggie Bennett and Louise Casey, now in their 80s, worked together for well over a decade as Foster Grandparents on the Pediatrics Ward of Maine Medical Center in Portland. For that entire period they showed up, virtually every day, week in and week out, to work one-on-one with children in dire shape...more >  Dr. Dorothea GlassDr. Dorothea Glass is a twice-retired physician in her mid-70s who is serving at the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic where she provides free care to working-poor patients in Stuart, Fla.,...more >  Steve WeinerSteve Weiner of Piedmont, Calif., retired early from a distinguished career as a college administrator and policy expert. Weiner currently volunteers recording books for the blind. He also serves on the boards of the Alameda County Community Food Bank and the East Bay Conservation Corps and consults in higher education...more >  Marv WeltDuring his retirement, Marv Welt, now in his seventies, has turned his lifetime passion for fishing into an environmental education program operating in nine low-income Portland, Ore., public schools...more > |
