This document presents an extensive report on retirement income prepared by the Congressional Research Service at the request of Congressman Dan Rostenkowski. The report consists of an executive summary, an overview of the issue, and a series of background papers. Part I provides an overview of retirement income for an aging population and contains an introduction and discussions of the following issues: demography; preparing for the retirement of the baby boom; federal policies and roles in retirement income; the influence of income on retirement patterns; building claims for retirement income; and aging, health, and medical care. Part II contains an introduction and nine background papers: (1) "Demographics and the Aging Population" (Jeanne E. Griffith); (2) "The Dependency Burden of an Aging Population: What Measures Do We Have" (David Koitz); (3) "Preparing for the Retirement of the Baby Boom: Saving and Investing" (Robert Hartman and Larry Ozanne); (4) "Income, Wealth, Poverty and the Life Cycle" (Thomas Gabe); (5) "Work, Earnings and Retirement" (Carolyn L. Merck); (6) "Individual Retirement Saving and Dissaving" (Richard A. Hobbie); (7) "Social Security" (Geoff Kollmann); (8) "Private Pension Plans" (Ray Schmitt, David Lindeman, and Edwin Hustead); and (9) "Aging, Health, and Medical Care" (James Reuter and P. Royal Shipp). Forty tables and 62 figures are included. (NB)