Updates In Aging

New Report from Heldrich Center for Workforce Development Reveals Older Workers' Changing Views on Employment and Leisure

A new national Work Trends survey finds that nearly 7 in 10 American workers plan to continue to work full- or part-time for pay following retirement from their main job. Another 14 percent plan to work as volunteers, while only 13 percent expect to stop working entirely. A Work-Filled Retirement: Workers' Changing Views on Employment and Leisure , a new report based on a poll of 800 American workers between May and mid-June 2005, also finds that older workers believe they are treated unfairly by employers, and also raises workers' concerns about the financial soundness of Social Security and Medicare.

Read more at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development website.

Final Rule: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Age in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance From the Department of Labor

The Department has published a final rule implementing the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended. The Age Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance. The Act also contains certain exceptions that permit, under limited circumstances, use of age distinctions, or factors other than age that might have a disproportionate effect on the basis of age. The Age Act applies to persons of all ages. The final rule appears in the April 2 Federal Register. The effective date is May 3, 2004.

Read more in the Federal Register

House Appropriations Subcommittee Discusses Budget for Senior Services

On March 17, 2004, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies convened a hearing to discuss the President’s FY 2005 budget proposal and requests from agencies serving older Americans. Read More...