If, like me, you tend to worry neurotically about the perils of old-age, especially Alzheimer's Disease, the news about new early testing for Alzheimer's will either cheer you or terrify you. Spinal tap testing and PET scans are not yet...
Let me get one thing straight up front - if I was to measure my personal trust of both government and big corportations on a scale of one to ten, I'd rate government at 3 and corporate America at about...
As we watch carefully to see what, if any, healthcare makeovers are on the horizon, there is one disturbing detail that will affect boomers. Many doctors, both internists and specialists, are opting-out of Medicare, citing low reimbursements and the paperwork...
Those under 30, please cover your eyes. We're about to reveal that old people have sex. Ewwww. According to an article this spring in The Baltimore Sun: The merits of staying sexually active through the years are obvious and plentiful:...
The House has passed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act which, besides providing more volunteer opportunities for middle school and high school students, recognizes baby boomers' enormous potential for civic engagement. The bill expands existing services such as AmeriCorps...
We've been asked to post the following request to fellow boomers: I am a doctoral student in communication at the University of Alabama currently working on my dissertation project. The project is based on the baby boomer demographic and how...
This may be the best political email we've received all season. Dear Red States, We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you don't own a...
What? A hearing aid that's invisible, works better than conventional models and can be worn for months at a time. Wait, did you say $3000 PER YEAR??? According to the New York Times, the Lyric hearing aids are placed very...
We've seen this before - a private investment firm snaps up a struggling company, raids the pension fund, reduces quality/service/equity and fires workers. Then sells it off piece by piece making a tidy profit on the transaction. It seems now...
By Alexa Pierce "They say seventy is the new forty," a California health plan's radio commercial begins its pitch. Naturally, this got me thinking ... then sixty must be the new thirty. I'm a sixty-something -- 62-1/2 precisely -- navigating...
I thought it was just me. But John Tierney, who writes for the New York Times, Science Times, describes research showing that Boomers report more problems with their health than older generations did when they were in their fifties. Are...
by Mirabai Holland, MFA Q: I have a family history of osteoporosis. My bone density test just came back low. My doctor says I have osteopenia and I should take calcium supplements and exercise. What kind of exercise should I...
OK, before you go off and get excited about making money working for AgingHipsters.com- there isn't any. Just that warm feeling you'll be getting contributing to a labor of love. This site started in 1995 - before either of us...
An NYU graduate Capstone team is working with the United Hospital Fund on a project to engage Boomers in hospital volunteerism. "The boomer generation is better educated and healthier than previous generations, and is also more culturally, economically, and socially...
Mirabai Holland M.F.A. is one of the leading authorities in the Health & Fitness industry, and public health activist who specializing in preventive and rehabilitative exercise for women. Her Moving Free™ approach to exercise is designed to provide a...
Maxwell September 30, 1991 - September 23, 2006 There was uneasy silence last evening as we spent the first night alone without our friend and protector. Maxwell passed away on Saturday morning, one week short of his 15th birthday....
Another request from a journalist--this one for Money Magazine. Pretty specific requirements, so if you fit and want your 3 seconds in the limelight, please contact the writer directly. I'm looking to chat with a baby boomer couple and their...
If you were planning to have a pacemaker installed or try a new drug for what ails you, I'd hold off for a while. According to this article in the NY Times, The FDA's enforcement of drug safety laws has...
In case you're wondering about the dearth of fresh content here lately, there's a perfectly good explanation. One of us has just quit smoking after 38 years and had neither the patience nor concentration to sit at the computer...
Here are 2 phrases I hoped never to see in a sentence: 'baby boomers' and long-term care.' But we all know bad things don't wait until we're 80 or so to happen. According to this release, a new insurance product...
Our local weekly newspaper--you know the kind with livestock prices and dates for the next Tricky Tray--has a curmudgeonly Boomer columnist, George L. Stafford, who came out with this article just last week. Never heard it said better. Pardon me,...
This columnist in the Toronto Star has it in for us baby boomers. Would we kindly get out of the way, stop having good jobs, stop wanting to stay vital, healthy, and sexy, and...what the hell..can't we just melt into...
I was wondering the other day what would happen if our generation started to view retirement differently... as if it was a chance to resume where we left off before the mortgage and 2.5 kids. Wouldn't it be grand if...
We received this inquiry from Fuji TV Network News. Interested Boomers, g'head and make contact. You could be a star on Japanese TV: Fuji TV News is looking to produce a segment for its prime-time news show about aging baby...
Woo-hoo, ABC is doing a story on Baby Boomers turning 60. In typical television fashion it was 30 seconds of stuff we already knew. Titled "boomer Breakthroughs," the story tonight dealt with Baby Boomers challenging the accepted notion of retirement....
We really really like when people send us content for the site. We like it even more when the content is of direct interest to Boomers. The following is an excerpt from a new book by Paul Zane Pilzer...
Information from a Harris Interactive survey presented at the North American Menopause Society's annual meeting, the large number of menopausal baby boomer women in the workplace is becoming a 'public health issue.' What, do they think we'll pull out...
We received a release about The Irritable Male Syndrome, recently released in paperback. Although I didn't realize that crankiness in Boomer-age men was an actual syndrome, the book, by Jed Diamond, sounds pretty interesting. An article by the author follows....
According to this article this article in the Amsterdam News a new CDC report indicates that the elderly and the almost elderly (that would be us) are at greater risk for HIV and AIDS then in previous years. Of all...
We received this from Barbara Morris, a 76-year-old working pharmacist and writer on anti-aging strategies. We're all for anti-aging strategies. Put Old on Hold -- Start Now By Barbara M. Morris, R.Ph. Is it possible to avoid premature mental and...
Do we really want to be reminded to upgrade our health and fitness habits? No. Do we need to be told again that yeah...we're getting older? Oh please, leave me alone. Certainly I'm resilient enough to get by on Tastykakes...
The Sheriff of Knucklehead and his evil henchman Karl Rove have once again proven that this Sherwood Forest we call America is being systematically plundered - literally and figuratively. While Baby Boomers are occupied wringing their hands over whether or...
"The Lives and Times of Baby Boomers"
A new report has come out examining the Baby Boomer generation and our ability to have a major impact on society and policy as we age. According to an article in The Mature Market , (doncha hate that name?), the...
We are so special, we require our very own radio show. Called Encore Living, the call-in radio show apparently caters to boomers with such topics as travel, entertainment, legal affairs, health, financial news, and a little Las Vegas comedy from...
According to a study from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Met Life Foundation, Boomers can find fulfillment in volunteering. Finally someone is looking at us as a resource instead of a rotting anchor dragging society down. If...
Your mother was right! There seems to be some emperical evidence that Baby Boomers are indeed (ahem)a "self-serving" bunch. According to this article, we're going blind at an alarming rate. And you thought you could stop when you needed glasses!...
Found this article on the Daily NonPareil Online. For once, we're not being marketed to, harangued as the end of Social Security, or warned about the dire effects of growing old. Just a thoughtful, reasoned piece about who Boomers are...
As the specter of retirement and empty-nesting looms, baby boomers are hardly entering old age-homes or assisted living facilities. Known in the realty biz as 'active adult communities.' I like to think of it as 'we-want-what-we-want-when- we-want-it-the-way-we want it' communities....
By the year 2030, the number of people with Alzheimer's disease in this country is expected to increase by 70 percent. If it's any comfort, perhaps I'll forget what it is that pissed me off so much about my bratty...
Gen X may dismiss us as old and in the way, but marketing to Boomers seems to be the topic du jour, judging from all the news items about finding new and improved ways to part us from our money....
The 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year's major events and hottest trends based on more than 55 billion searches conducted over the past year by Google users from around the world. Whether you are tracking the...
Okay--apparently we're neither immortal nor invincible. According to recent articles, heart disease is on the rise among baby boomers. After a youth of blessed excess, many of still don't take care of ourselves or even want to admit we're at...
Getting Over Getting Older, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Berkley Books, 1996 Don't you just hate when a friend keeps insisting there's a book you MUST read? Whether it sounds interesting or not? I have just become that friend. I've been handing...
MIT in conjunction with several well-connected "laborotory partners" has created the AgeLab. With companies like Procter & Gamble, The Hartford and Philips, the AgeLab's goal is to go where no aging hipster has gone before; seeking out new products designed...
With a health care crisis of our own to worry about, many Baby Boomers are already dealing with the challenge of aging parents. As BRIAN BERGSTEIN of the Associated Press writes: "Joan Coleman calls it her nightmare. When her 74-year-old...
Despite the alarming title of this article, it's not all gloom and doom for you Gen-Xers waiting with baited breath for us Boomers to get the heck out of the way... but it's close. According to a new AARP poll,...
Isn't it nice to be a part of the majority? Gen-Xers can whine all they want about selfish Baby Boomers, but the fact remains, "feed the big dog from the big bowl." As Boomers reach their retirement years, we'll be...
"Baby boomers won't live happily ever after. Those soon retiring may not be able to afford the sea change they've always dreamt of..." This is a recurring theme of those watching the generational glacier creeping across world economies. Here's just...
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." Rita Mae Brown The Bitch in the House...
A visitor to the site sent us this article about an interesting new concept in senior (that's soon to be us, fellow baby boomers) living--aging-in-place communities. It's hard to imagine us allowing ourselves to be shipped off to nursing homes:...
The Associated Press is reporting on a study released by the Department of Health and Human Services that indicates aging Baby Boomers will create a shortage of over 3 million health care workers by 2050. By then the Baby Boomer...
According to Dr. Nick DiNubile-orthopaedic surgeon, Boomers are paying the price for being in shape... and he's even given it a name... "Boomer-itis." According to DiNubile, Baby Boomer bodies are suffering from overuse. "They're related to repetitive movement. Somebody who's...
RALEIGH, NC At Shaw University during fall 2002, Gale Isaacs, long-time professor and chair of the Allied Health Department, was fired for co-authoring a faculty resolution that criticized the University's president and Board of Trustees. President Talbert O. Shaw personally...
MyPrimeTime - http://www.myprimetime.com Features tips on money and finance, work and jobs, health and fitness, travel and culture for baby boomers.Fifties Website - http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fifties.htm Features the nostalgia, trivia, music and TV for the decade that kicked off the boomer generation and the birth of...
It seems not only is Bush willing to go pick a fight, but he's ready to go it alone. I have 20 year old twin sons and my perspective on war hasn't changed in 30 years. But with "cannon fodder"...
