Are baby boomers finding fulfillment in less material, less consumerist ways because we want to...or because we have to? Are you buying a Porsche or learning how to throw pots? This article in the Leader-Post explores how baby boomers are...
A friend sent the following to me in an email recently. Laughin' to keep from crying: Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown in the economy, Congress has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of...
As boomers ponder their dream retirement havens, it would be wise to consider more than just the state tax element of the benefit/drawback equation. Amenities aside, considerations such as sales tax, social security and property tax need to be taken...
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...
There was an interesting essay in the Sunday NY Times written by a 30-something about her parents' decision to pick up and move to Hong Kong. So many of us are still watching the last of our children leave and...
According to a recent Ameriprise survey, almost all boomers surveyed are giving their adult children financial assistance, while a fair amount are also assisting aging parents financially. This can substantially affect our ability to save and invest for retirement. Download...
We're a little late with this story, but 'AARP the Magazine' (as it calls itself) came out with a study this year of 5 great cities for retirement and other cities to watch. I've often thought a city would make...
One effect of being 76-million strong is that everything we do is larger-than-life and some sort of public occasion. Sometimes it seems we're the proverbial butterfly fluttering its wings. Case in point--last week the first baby boomer filed for her...
What the Baby Boomers Can Teach Paris Hilton. Even if the article weren't interesting, how can I resist a headline that includes two great search terms--baby boomers and Paris Hilton? Not to mention, someone finally has something good to say...
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...
You know, sometimes you look up and your life has become a Kodak commercial. (I love making these sort of references - it's a kind of generational inside joke). Turn around and there's hair growing in strange places. You can't...
Does that plastic-headed Burger King creep anyone else out, or is it just me? Is banning plastic grocery bags in San Francisco a good start or a fart in the wind? Does watching those Peter Max/Inna-Godda-Divida retirement commercials make you...
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...
As Boomers start to consider retiring or simply moving away so the kids can't find us, it's hard to know where to start. If like me, you're not a world traveller and tend to pick places by their names (...
We occasionally pass on inquiries from writers who want to know what we 75 million or so think. Here's the latest: I'm writing a book called The Leisure Economy which is to be published next year by John Wiley &...
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...
We received this from a member of a new cohousing community in Massachusetts. "Cohousing is a concept that may be very appealing to the aging hipster. Cohousing is a intergenerational pedestrian friendly neighborhood geared toward a balance of private and...
A recent article by Lisa Belkin in the New York Times Magazine offered a retirement solution I hadn't thought of--I can go back to live at college! In efforts to stop mass boomer migration and to provide us with...
They go too far. Just when I got used to hearing our music used as pseudo-symbolic themes, marketing everything from cars to box stores, along comes Fidelity Funds--who are shameless enough to use In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, for Christ's sake, to convince us...
According to this release by Gary Pettis, Boomers who either must or want to continue working after so-called retirement age will need to be creative in carving out new roles. And it may not necessarily be Gen-X we're competing against,...
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...
Occasionally we receive releases about book of interest to Boomers. And what could be closer to our hearts (and wallets) than social security? You can read an excerpt here from Nancy Altman's book, The Battle for Social Security, and buy...
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....
Baby Boomers who are still working have apparently weathered the last of the corporate downsizings. But as a group, Boomers are still under attack from corporations downsizing or eliminating pension plans - that's a different topic. The real winners here...
Lately I've had boomer-esque dreams of a Dharma Bums/On the Road retirement, including parking an Airstream trailer on the cliffs overlooking California somewhere, traveling the country making impulsive stops, and generally reverting to the hippie ideal. Well, I just read...
Since we're all planning to work until we drop, an AARP study of "Best Employers of People Over 50" should be of interest to some. According to an interview with Deborah Russell, the director of economic security for AARP, on...
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...
While other grouse about the Boomers' drain on Social Security, another trend is emerging. According to a report in theMatureMarket.com, people over 40 accounted for 86.6% of start-up businesses in the second quarter of 2005. The article is based on...
The Carlton College Voice has a thoughtful article on Baby Boomers dealing with aging parents, careers, retirement, and other more philosophical issues. It's well-researched and a good read....
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...
As some of us hit the stage where we can withdraw money from retirement savings penalty-free, many states are trying to woo our retirement dollars. This article from Kansas City InfoZine describes just who is clamoring for us and why....
It's mid-May and you need 3 credit hours to graduate college... Sound familiar? Now fast-forward 30 years or so and it's your son or daughter in the same predicament, only this time, you're footing the bill. Why not help a...
Now here's a social security story I can get down with. How many more people have to point out that if anyone brings down Social security it will be the current administration, not 73 million Baby Boomers? Make up your...
Well, we've reinvented everything else, now we're going to reinvent retirement. According to "The New Retirement Survey" from Merrill Lynch and Harris Interactive, Boomers are not planing to take up shuffleboard and watch the tides roll in. Most Boomers envision...
Chuck Nyren is a funny writer. Well, he's a serious writer who's funny. We like his stuff so we figured, since everyone is trying to figure out how to market to Baby Boomers, his book will probably be the best...
For nearly 10 years now, I've answered every e-mail that asked "what are the Boomer years?" I actually got so annoyed with the question, I put the answer in the masthead. Now it's my turn. What years comprise the...
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...
If you're one of those Boomers who's worried about how to beat taxes on your millions, there's a new retirement plan in effect for the self-employed. The Solo-DB plan allows you to contribute hefty amounts each year, in excess of...
One of the most clever commercials we've ever seen... by the way, you know you're depressed when you cry at 30 second commercials, fer gosh sakes. Check out the TV Commercial And while we're at it, we found this one...
Acording to an article in the ContraCosta Times, Baby Boomers are finding more exotic retirement locales than their blue-haired elders. Central America is becoming the hot new place, thanks to relatively inexpensive beachfront property, stablized infrastructures, and cheap flights...
I have long been to the left of liberal, but this article on freezerbox.com, written by a conservative, is the single best argument against the current administration I have heard so far. Those who consider themselves Republicans may be surprised...
A brief surf through news about baby boomers turns up a dozen articles positing that we are facing financial disaster as we reach retirement age. Read, for instance, this article from the Wichita Eagle So, we're not such great...
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....
On the heels of Fox's "The Apprentice" we thnk there should be a companion show just for Baby Boomers. The premise is this: You take 20 out-of-work Baby Boomers and tell them that they will have to go through a...
This article recently appeared in the Los Angeles Times. We're hot, we're the majority, and we're not gonna take it anymore. They hold the purse Movies like "Calendar Girls" reveal -- again -- that older women are an audience to...
Social Security (or a future lack of it) has been on the minds of Gen-X lately and 76 million Baby Boomers are to blame for the bleak picture. But Dave Lindorff writes in The American Prospect "...baby boomers, if united,...
The Committee for Economic Development, the Concord Coalition and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities held a joint policy briefing on Monday, September 29 at the National Press Club to discuss the rapidly deteriorating budget outlook and the policy,...
Some sobering and thoughtful insight into Congressional gridlock and its effect on the real issue of fiscal responsibility and Baby Boomer futures. Commentary from www.nashvillecitypaper.com by Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts November 07, 2003 The senior administration official allowed...
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,...
Here's more evidence that we Baby Boomers have been putting pennies in our loafers and not in the bank. Baby Boomers Not Getting the Retirement Message Read the story, then take the poll in the left sidebar....
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...
Is this any way to talk about their elders? Seems Gen-Xers really do think it's all our fault and that they'll foot the bill. Considering that baby boomers pay 58% of the taxes in this country, they better stop whining...
This article in the New York Times comes down hard on the savings habits of baby boomers. According to this, we may all end up living in our cars or, even worse, with our children. Since the Times tends to...
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:...
One of the interesting results of being listed high in the search engines is that we receive all sorts of requests, marketing come-ons, and offers to affiliate with sites from Tonga to Staten Island. Naturally, dear readers, we protect you...
By Brian Bergstein AP Business Writer From Sun-Sentinel.com NEW YORK -- Mary Jones Pelt got the bad news a year ago. She had worked in accounts receivable at Boar's Head Provisions Co. Inc. for 17 years, but the maker of...
The logs don't lie. Here are some interesting tidbits from our search query logs: More people searched on "social Security" than they did on Sex. At least we have our priorities straight. "What is a Baby Boomer" was searched numerous...
The link below contains a comprehensive search page of books written by or pertaining to the Baby Boomer Generation. Sample titles include: "Boomers, Xers, and Other Strangers: Understanding the Generational Differences That Divide Us ," "The Nanas and the Papas:...
Keeping up with the lingo is essential if you want to be neanimorphic, and if you have one or more boomerangers you may be a member of the sandwich generation or suffer retirement panic. Look up these and other culture-defining...
I 'm a dead has-been and I didn't even know it. Thanks, Jeff for pointing out that I am a steaming pile of cow dung on the fast track to nowhere. He does offer some hope that by 2017 there...
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...
The attack of Sept 11 had the potential to cripple the American spirit, drain our resources, and strike a death blow to an already uncertain economy. As almost all hope for survivors has waned and the people of the country...
