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Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as "the tone of voice of aging seniors [seeking] important and sustaining work later in life", makes an impassioned call to simply accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they are really: an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years. In The Big Shift, Freedman bemoans the actual fact that the conversation about longer lives in America has been entirely about the staggering financial costs of the dramatically aging modern culture when, in reality, most of the country's 78 million boomers are not getting old - at least not yet. The complete 60- to 80-year-old period is merely new place, he writes, and folks in this era constitute a complete new sensation in the 21st hundred years. The Big Shift is animated by a simple idea: that the challenge of transitioning to and making the almost all of this new stage-while deeply personal-is much more than a person problem; it's an urgent social essential, one affecting all decades. By embracing this time as a unique period of life - and providing assistance, training, education, and support to the thousands and thousands who are in it - Freedman says that people can make a monument out of what so many think of as the leftover years. The effect is actually a windfall of talent that will hold us toward a new generation of alternatives for growing problems in areas like education, the surroundings, and health care.
