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Podcast: The Retirement Wisdom Podcast
Episode: Golden Years - James Chappel
Description: What’s the current stage of retirement and aging in the US? And how did we get here? James Chappel discusses his new book Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age, the impact of The Gray Panthers and why The Golden Girls is “the most important TV show in the history of American aging.”
James Chappel joins us from Durham, North Carolina.
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Bio
James Chappel is the Gilhuly Family Associate Professor of History at Duke University and a senior fellow at the Duke Aging Center. He’s the author of the n...