Canada’s Aging Population by Susan McDaniel was the inaugural book in the Butterworths series on aging in the 1980s. It opened a “growth industry” in research on aging. Much more is known now about the processes, both individual and collective, that are part of aging. More reliable projections of future population can now be made. That said, myths and misunderstandings – particularly about the policy implications of population aging – persist. It seems that the same fears and anxieties occur again and again. The disconnect remains between our growing knowledge about population aging and media or policy responses.
