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
Looking Young and Feeling Young for Baby Boomers
Baby boomers may not be the only people with the desire to look younger, but they are certainly a large section of the market. Baby boomers have led the movement towards the creation of many cosmetic and surgical solutions to the aging process. The quest to look young in baby boomers has resulted in an explosion of products and profits in the cosmetic and plastic surgery markets. It may be easy to write baby boomers desire to look young as simple vanity, but it actually goes deeper than t
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
Aging Baby Boomers and Injuries
After the Second World War, upon the return of the American soldiers back to their homes, there had been an unprecedented population explosion between the years 1946 and 1964. The epoch was coined the baby boomer generation. This generation had marke…
The Aging Baby Boomers Generation Create Jobs in Health Care Industry
Over 75 million Americans comprise the baby boomer generation, and many have reached an age where health care is starting to become a major concern. Baby boomers are generally recognized as the generation born between 1946 and 1964, although many who…
Facing up to, ‘Could I outlive my money?’
This Reuters story on aging baby boomers, their money and their financial advisors is set in the future, but it’s already reality for some of the oldest boomers (who turned 63 this year), and it’s certainly true for many people older than that: U.S. financial advisors are due for upheaval as baby boomers, controlling $10 trillion in assets, reach retirement age and shift their investment priorities, said a senior executive at asset manager BlackRock Inc. Baby boomers will move the indust
Aging boomers say over-50 job hunt is difficult
Age is catching up with the Baby Boomers in the job force – and they’re stressed about it. A recent survey done by an online source reports that an overwhelming majority of Boomer respondents — 79 percent — said they believe it is more difficult for those over 50 to find employment during this recession. And if they were looking for a job, some 46 percent said they felt they would need new skills to be competitive. More than one-third of the respondents to the Third Age survey also sai
generation x and the decline of the big box store [excerpt]
photo via .fenster. Retail Wire has an article today on the decline of the power center in retail shopping. Think big-box stores like Wal-Mart , Home Depot and Lowe’s . To view the article, you must register with the site. (Painless!) The title of the article is BrainTrust Query: 7 Years for 7 Reasons - The Decline of the Power Center . The reasons cited for the decline include aging boomers who will have issues navigating big-box stores; the Generation X deficit; rising fuel costs;
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
Aging, beauty and the folly of chasing perfection
When I smile, I get this little pocket under each eye. It’s a little puffy bag made more noticeable, I think, because my eyes are very small. I didn’t notice this particular little facial quirk until I was in my early 30s. But if you notice, in the photo of me at about four years old with my mother and sister (left), I have the same little puffy bags under my eyes. That’s just my face.
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