Archive for September, 2008
Happily Unmarried
There are many reasons why baby boomer couples who might have gotten married a decade or two ago only live together now. Some reasons have to do with morality, some with affordability, some with practicality. Dr. John Curtis, a Ph.D. in Human Resource Development who has just written a book called “Happily Un-Married: Living Together [...]
Looking Younger … At a Cost
There’s something about the quirky culture of the baby boomer generation — We always believed we would look younger, and, some of us have. Whoever coined the now-overused phrase “Sixty is the New Forty” certainly must have been a baby boomer who grew up defying anything that reeked of old. We promised ourselves that we [...]
Weather the Storm with Fish Oil
The stock market meltdown of the past few weeks may only be a blip for those 45 and under, but for those of us who are in the baby boomer generation, it could take years to recover our ravaged portfolios, years we may not have wanted to spend grinding it out in the workforce. And [...]
Work is New Retirement for Baby Boomers
According to a lecturer at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, many baby boomers may invent new opportunities for themselves rather than choosing retirement. The old perceptions that retirees are too old to work, shouldn’t get too excited, and should be content to stay in rocking chairs on their front porches don’t apply to baby [...]
Baby Boomers Embrace Motorized Bicycles
Baby Boomers are fueling demand for bicycles with gasoline or electric engines, even though some cities aren’t sure whether they should be allowed on the street. The vehicles, with top speeds of 20 mph, get about 150 miles to the gallon. Kits to retrofit bicycles with engines start at about $200. Many lifelong riders who [...]
Prelude To An Empty Nest
If you’re an empty nester now, you’ll appreciate this! The home of Prudence Baird, a contributor to the Blogazine, “From Fifty is the New…,” isn’t empty yet, but already she feels her nest thinning out. So she calls this piece, “Prelude To An Empty Nest.” The screen door bangs shut behind me, echoing in a [...]
Eye Health Top Concern for Baby Boomers
Baby boomers are more concerned about losing their vision than they are about losing their memory, physical mobility and other attributes of personal independence as they get older, according to a new survey conducted on behalf of the Canadian Association of Optometrists to kick off Eye Health Month this October. Although they fear a loss [...]
Finding a Terrific Place to Retire
During the past 15 years, International Living magazine has calculated its Annual Global Retirement Index; a resource intended to assist retirees and future retirees in evaluating and comparing the world’s most popular retirement destinations. It is based on a number of criteria, giving various weights to each, depending on its importance to retirees. Listed below [...]
The Cost of Social Security & Medicare
It’s going to cost us, no matter how you look at it, for Social Security and Medicare benefits. There are only two cures: higher taxes or lower benefits, according to Money Magazine. You’ve seen alarming stats thrown around and maybe wondered what to make of them. (For example, the two programs are said to have [...]
Boomer Use of Online Social Media Grows
More than two-thirds (68 percent) of online Americans, including baby boomers, say they visit online blogs, communities or social networks, and 33 percent engage in product research online to help make purchase decisions, according to a new study. Baby Boomer visitors are significantly more likely than other groups to read or post comments about products [...]
