Robert B. Hudson, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair, Department of Social Welfare Policy, Boston University School of Social Work. His writings on the policies and politics of aging have appeared in Social Service Review, Families in Society, Milbank Quarterly, International Social Security Review, and The Gerontologist, among other publications. He currently serves as Editor of Public Policy & Aging Report, the quarterly publication of the National Academy on an Aging Society. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, where he chairs the John A. Heinz Dissertation Award Committee. He has received the Donald Kent Award from GSA and the Arthur S. Flemming Award form the National Association of State Units on Aging. Most recently, he has organized a two-volume reference set for Praeger Perspectives, entitled Boomer Bust?: Economic and Political Issues of the Graying Society.