(Harvard University Press)

Corey Abramson, an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, looks at disparities among seniors in his new book, "The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years."

Senior citizens are often referred to as being in their “golden years.” But it turns out whether that’s how it ends up is pretty dependent on whether seniors had relatively golden younger years.

Corey Abramson, an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, looks at these kinds of disparities among seniors in his new book, "The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years."