Description: Presented at June 2002 Spring Meeting. This symposium provides new insights and dialogue between diverse disciplines as professionals discuss the ways the aging population and changing family structures are changing retirement.

Description: This 1981 discussion session is about public social policies and their impact on public and private retirement plans in the United States and Canada. The key issues discussed pertain to age, sex and marital status, and income level. Also discussed is the possible impact of public social policies on future trends in disability benefits, death benefits, termination benefits, and other factors in private and public retirement plans.