Healthcare Reform: A Bitter Pill to Swallow
The American healthcare system, as presently configured is unsustainable and will eventually collapse. It will collapse due to developing demographic pressures. We are well into the beginnings of that collapse. Without substantive reform, in 5-20 yrs the infrastructural problems endemic to our current healthcare system plus the demographic pressures of a large aging baby boomer generation and smaller succeeding generation(s) of young tax-paying adults…will overwhelm it. However, private heal
Is Dallas (Like America) Getting Less Mobile?
Moving companies, earmuffs. Are people NOT switching houses every few years to move up, are Baby Boomers NOT abandoning the ‘burbs to move to downtown condos where they can have it all? No, they are – -we all are — staying put more than ever , says Joel Kotkin in this week’s Newsweek: “…in reality Americans actually are becoming less nomadic. As recently as the 1970s as many as one in five people moved annually; by 2006, long before the current recession took hold, that number was 14 per
Baby Boomer Drivers Will Increase the Number of Senior Drivers
By 2030, more than 40 million aging Baby Boomers will be flooding America’s streets and highways as senior drivers. For some people, this is a scary thought, because senior citizens and teenagers have the highest rates of auto accidents in the United States. For others, including Baby Boomers whose auto insurance premiums may increase when they become senior drivers, it’s merely something to plan for. And that’s exactly what many organizations and states are doing by developing driver safety pro
Principal’s Winning Website – Analyst Blog
Principal Financial Group’s ( PFG ) defined contribution plan sponsor website has been ranked first for three consecutive quarters by DALBAR. Additionally, Principal’s defined contribution plan participant site was ranked in DALBAR’s top 10. DALBAR is one of the nation’s leading financial-services market research firms. Principal has also launched iGoogle and text messaging features for its Retirement Plan participants. iGoogle is a personalized web page provided by Google Inc. ( GOOG ).
California Disease: Oregon at Risk of Economic Malady
California has been exporting people to Oregon for many years, even amid the recession in both states. Indeed, the 2005 American Community Survey report shows that California-to-Oregon migration was 56,379 in 2005, the sixth-largest interstate flow in the United States. The 2000 census showed a five-year flow of 138,836 people, the eighth-largest over that time period. Until two years ago, Oregon was managing to absorb this population with mixed results, but generally as part of an expanding a
Arena’s Edge in the Obesity Drug Race
Jamie Moye submits: As the U.S. obesity epidemic grows ever bigger–pardon the pun–with aging Baby Boomer and Generation X waistlines expanding and record numbers of obese Gen. Y children burgeoning into adulthood, three companies are vying to become first to market with potential blockbuster-status weight loss drugs. Arena Pharmaceuticals ( ARNA ), Orexigen Therapeutics ( OREX ) and Vivus Inc. ( VVUS ) are in play with weight loss drugs in late stage clinical trials, but all face hurdles in
Yoga Poses for Aging | Prevent Aging With Yoga Poses | Yoga Techniques
Yoga Poses for Aging According to yoga, an individual’s age can be identified with the flexibility of the spine, not through number of years. Yoga poses for aging process can help you in preventing body’s degeneration from misuse and abuse by spending your adult years working extremely, eating food with too much calories, and sitting before the television all the time. When your body doesn’t get any exercise then ultimately it will collapse, as it is a living machine and needs to be taken ca
Parenting your Parents
As many members of the “Sandwich generation” are by now well aware, baby boomers have family responsibilities for both the generation behind them — their own children — as well as the one ahead of them: their parents. The notion of “parenting your parents” is one well explored by one of the frequent expert contributors to Gilbert Guide , Ron Kaufman. Gilbert Guide is a free online national directory of services geared to the elderly. The slogan is “guiding you as your loved on
FastForward Radio: The Age of Indefinite Lifespan
The World Transformed, Part 2 “How long have I got, Doc?” “Oh, about 1000 years…” Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome visionary aging researchers and best-selling authors Aubrey de Grey ( Ending Aging ) and Terry Grossman ( The Baby-Boomer’s Guide to Living Forever , Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever ) explain how indefinite healthy extension of human lifespan is not only possible, but may well soon be within our grasp. If you listen live
The New Old: How the Boomers Are Changing Everything . . . Again
David Cravit “The New Old: How the Boomers Are Changing Everything . . . Again” Ecw Press | English | 2008-10-01 | ISBN: 1550228439 | 300 pages | PDF | 4 MB Focusing on the Baby Boomer generation, this argument explores how this group is permanently destroying previous attitudes toward aging, retirement, senior citizens, and even the concept of death. An analysis of welfare rates and health-care costs demonstrates that the “Boomers” are influencing everything from education and employment to
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