Featured faculty: Matt Kaplan — seeing the silver lining in the “silver tsunami”
May 15, 2014
Communities throughout the region and the nation are bracing themselves for what some are calling the “silver tsunami” — the coming wave of baby boomers who will be entering old age. To Matt Kaplan — a professor of intergenerational programs and aging in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Education, and Sociology at Penn State — the “silver tsunami” can be a golden opportunity for communities.