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391 Contributors Robert N. Butler, M.D., is the founder and president of the International Longevity Center-USA. He is also Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development in the Henry L. Schwartz Department of Geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. From 1975 until 1982, he was the first director of the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. In 1982, he founded the nation’s first department of geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he served as Chairman and Brookdale Professor of Geriatrics until 1995. Dr. Butler, the author or coauthor of numerous articles, book chapters, and books, in 1976 won the Pulitzer Prize for Why Survive? Being Old in America. He is the coauthor, with Myrna I. Lewis, of the books Aging and Mental Health and Love and Sex After 60.An internationally recognized leader in gerontology and geriatrics, Dr. Butler has received numerous honors from various professional and other associations in his fields. John Creighton Campbell, Ph.D., is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Professor Campbell is interested in how policies change from agenda setting through implementation, and in the relationship between politics and substantive public policy. He works mostly on Japan, often in comparative perspective, these days mainly about social policy, including health care and Japan’s new public, mandatory long-term care insurance system. Currently he is following up on an old avocation by directing a project of secondary data analysis called Losing Faith in Politics? Trends in CitizenAttitudes and Behavior in Japan and the United States. Other interests include the auto industry, U.S.-Japan relations, and organization theory. He is the author of numerous books, chapters, and articles, including How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992; Japanese edition, 1995) and, with Naoki Ikegami, The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan’s Low-Cost Egalitarian System (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Long-Term Care for Frail Older People? Reaching for the Ideal System (Springer-Verlag Telos, 1999). Ruth Campbell, M.S.W., is an Adjunct Lecturer and the Associate Director of Social Work and Community Programs at the University of Michigan Geriatic Center. Her research interests include, aging, long-term care, caregivers, and social work practice. Her publications include The Delicate Balance: Case Studies in Counseling and Care Management for Older Adults (with Berit Ingersoll-Dayton) (Health Professions Press, 2001) and “An Ideal Long-Term Care System: From the Perspective of the Older Adult“ (Keio Journal of Medicine 47, Supplement 2 [1998]). MarjorieCantor is Professor Emerita and Brookdale Distinguished Scholar of Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service and the Scholar in Residence of Lighthouse International. Professor Cantor is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in the field of aging. Her areas of research expertise include elderly in the urban setting, the 392 Growing Older inWorld Cities effect of ethnicity and culture on elderly lifestyles, and the role of family and other informal supports in providing care for older people. She is the author of more than seventy articles, books, chapters, and papers presented in the United States and abroad. Florence de Maria is a Research Scientist (Chargée d’études) in public health at the Observatoire Régional de Santé d’Ile-de-France, in Paris. Her research is focused on gerontology, and she serves as a consultant to the Medical School at Creteil on issues of statistics and epidemiology. Marc Esponda is a demographer in charge of socioeconomic studies for the urban planning agency of Toulon in the south of France. Previous to this position, he worked for the urban-planning agency of Paris, the Atelier Parisien d’Urbanisme (APUR), where he conducted socioeconomic analyses of gentrification in Paris and initiated studies on Paris’s older population. Maria Evandrou is a Reader in Gerontology at Kings College in London. Her research interests include social policy issues concerning older people, in particular the retirement prospects of future cohorts of elders; health, disability, and access to health and social services; health and socioeconomic position of minority ethnic elders; the changing economic and family-care roles of individuals in midlife; tools for policy making: dynamic microsimulation modeling; and the socioeconomic position of informal carers. Her publications include “Demographic Change in Europe: Implications for Family Support for Older People” (with J. Falkingham), in P. Kreager and E. Schroeder-Butterfill, eds., Elderly without Children (Oxford: Berhahn Books, 2004...