t funds did not thrive as expected. Lack of retirement benefits and senior health care are taking away from the golden years and turning them into work years.
             If these elderly individuals were financially able to leave the workforce, the workforce may not be prepared to loose them. According to Gullette (1997), proportionally, there are fewer young adults entering the work force because the population has dropped in this past generation. The aging workers may not have the opportunity to leave a company because there is no one to take the jobs of the retirees; as is demonstrated by the decline of births after 1960, which represents Generation X. Due to competition for better wages, younger workers view work differently than those from older generations, who were more loyal to a company and may not want the low wage that they would receive for a newly available position. In the 1950's, the workplace was comprised of people whose value systems and work ethics were greatly influenced by the Great Depression and world wars. Their work ethics included appreciation for the opportunity to have a job, the expectation of loyalty to a company, and a belief that the boss was always right. The management style was patriarchal: management was the brains and labor was the strength (Palmore, 1999). This was accepted as a way of life, and it worked back then. However, things have changed. Entering the baby boomers, a generation had born during a period beginning in 1946 until the 1960s. This group rejected the old ways of following
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