According to the Boston College Center for Retirement Research, today’s workers are at risk of having insufficient resources at retirement. With lifespans lengthening, the retirement age rising and poorly funded 401K accounts, the baby boomer faces an uncertain future.

But housing equity is growing and offers at least one source of retirement funding for the baby boomer - a reverse mortgage.

In Will Reverse Mortgages Rescue the Baby Boomers? by Andrew D. Eschtruth, Wei Sun, and Anthony Webb, the authors explore the complicated subject of accessing home equity through reverse mortgages.