A juggling act (The Daily Sentinel)
Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a six-part series that examines the joys and challenges that the baby boomer generation faces as they care for their elderly loved ones. The series follows five women, each of whom currently cares for an aging parent or spouse, and looks at the struggles, emotional strain and financial stress that accompanies their everyday lives, as well as the …
Gardener gets it all done (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Like many good sons, Tom Weikel tends to his elderly mother’s lawn. Welding together a wrought iron fence from scratch? No problem. Mom wants an arbor? Mom gets an arbor. But Weikel, a 57-year-old Delhi Township resident, does all this sitting in his wheelchair.
Search the Archives (Kansas State Collegian)
As aging baby-boomers begin retiring, the effects on the entire economy and on certain occupations and industries will be substantial, creating a need for younger workers to fill vacated jobs, many of which require relatively high skill levels.
Valley’s elderly population to double in size (The News Virginian)
The looming boom in the number of people 65 or older in the central Shenandoah carries with it an impact as wide and far reaching as the Valley itself, experts say.
Youthful Skin with Anti-Wrinkle Creams
Centuries long ago, kings and explorers searched for the key to immortality and later on in time, the Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon went in search for the fabled “fountain of youth”. In the present, our life expectancy is much longer but our bodies still fail to represent our younger selves that dwells within. Often what our body shows on the outside is much different than how we are on the inside. Revolutions of the Baby Boomer Generation My generation nick-named, “the Baby Boomers” are o
Smart Retirees - Why Phased Retirement Could Save You In Your Golden Years
Topics: phased retirement, retirement, retirement planning, retiree, planning for retirement The western world is going to experience a major impact from 2010 and onwards and it’s an impact that’s been predicted for sometime. Strange thing is, there doesn’t seem to be much going on to avoid it. We’re talking about the mass exodus expected from the workforce by our baby boomer generation who number about 80 million just in the United States. They also make up about one third of the work popula
Global Economy Impacts Outlook for Baby Boomers
Baby Boomers might redefine themselves and their surroundings by the year 2028 as a result of an evolving global environment and marketplace, according to a project by the Institute for the Future in conjunction with the MetLife Mature Market Institute. The project’s final report, “Boomers: The Next 20 Years, Ecologies of Risk,” paints a new picture of the Boomer demographic as it confronts a longer lifespan, the widest rich-poor gap in recent generations, a global energy shortage, new economi
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It’s good to be a Baby Boomer. Even romance novels are aging along with us. I had no idea there was a genre called hen lit aimed at women of a certain age. Hen lit? It’s an older version of chick lit, see. Considering the scarcity of men for this group, I would classify it as fantasy. The commenters at Metafilter makes it into humor
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This may surprise you, but did you know that women ages 50 to 55 are one of the largest purchasers of new Harley Davidson motorcycles? For many baby boomers, once the children are grown and out of the house, it’s time to settle in and enjoy the things you worked hard for over the years.
Successful Aging: Buy a home safe and start filling it now (Press & Sun-Bulletin)
Are you a baby boomer who is having trouble planning for retirement? Consider buying a home safe as a start. Your home safe can be a secure place to store documents that will help protect your future.
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