United States Senate Special Committee on Aging
Hearings

The Boomers are Coming: Challenges of Aging in the New Millennium

November 8, 1999

Is America equipped to handle the political, social and economic challenges that lie ahead as 77 million baby boomers prepare to retire early in the next century? The purpose of this hearing is to explore the looming concerns that could become a crisis if not addressed today.

Date: November 8, 1999
Time: 2:00 p.m.
216 Hart Senate Office Building

Statements of Committee Members
Witness Testimony Panel One: Overview of the Baby Boom Generation

  1. Mrs. Tipper Gore, wife of the Vice President, Washington, DC

Panel Two: Social Political and Economic Impacts of a Rapidly Aging Population

  1. Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., President and CEO of Age Wave, LLC, Emeryville, California

  2. Fernando Torres-Gil, Ph.D., Associate Dean, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, Los Angeles, California

  3. Pete Peterson, Chairman of the Blackstone Group and author of "Gray Dawn," New York, New York (no written statement was provided)

Hearing Publications
  • Committee on Aging Print: 106-20