All Entries in the "Baby Boomer Culture" Category
2009: The Year of the Total Reboot
What can you say about 2008? It wasn’t good, reports the Chicago Daily Herald. Most of us are looking toward 2009 with hope of brighter days ahead. Will there be? Not yet, says renowned trendspotter Marian Salzman.
“2009 is going to be the year we totally reboot,” she said. “The system is totally down. It’s like the Kennedys [...]
For Kids 59.99 & Over
You’re only as old as you feel. Right? Well, maybe. Because if you look in the mirror, it might make you feel older than you are! Carol Stanley, author of “For Kids 59.99 & Over,” says there’s a way to look in the mirror and feel great…as long as you do [...]
The Sweet Ghost of Christmas Past
If you’re feeling nostalgic about the holidays, you probably still can’t match the nostalgia of baby boomer Heather Summerhayes Cariou. Every year, she feels like she has encountered The Sweet Ghost of Christmas Past (and at the end, she takes “sweet” to a new level).
Growing up in the 1950’s and 60’s, Christmas in our house meant [...]
What Will be ‘THE’ Gift of Christmas Future?
The gifts of Christmas Past have faded and gone, reports a newspaper in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Clothing is worn to rags and disposed of long ago, a few emerging in antique shops for those intent on reliving days in the ago. Toys also displayed in those collectable booths remind us in the baby [...]
Boomers Growing Older, Part 2
To begin his presentation on baby boomers for a recent housing discussion in Seattle, “Pig in the Python: Design for Aging Forum,” Matt Thornhill, president and co-founder of the Boomer Project, told the audience about how defining events in the lives of baby boomers have shaped the character of this large and interesting demographic.
Boomers feel [...]
The Fear of Growing Old
“Gerotophobia”: fear of old people or of growing old. Erica Heberling doesn’t know if she has it or not, but she does know one thing: as irritating as she finds some “old people’s” habits … she’ll be one herself, one day soon.
When I was a child, I never thought of my fun, free-spirited [...]
As A Boomer, How Much Do You Drink?
Is alcohol a tonic or a toxin, asks Jane Brody in The New York Times. The question is especially critical to older people, whose overall medical picture gives alcohol the potential to be a health benefit or a life-shortening hazard.
Yet experts say that doctors rarely ask older patients how much and how often they drink. [...]
How Boomers Will Transform Growing Older
Baby boomer Matt Thornhill, 48, founded the Boomer Project with Jim Martin in 2003 because they believed advertisers didn’t understand boomers.
Thornhill, keynote speaker at a recent forum in Seattle on housing for older adults, told the audience while working in advertising for 20 years he focused on 18 to 49 year olds.
“If you were 50, [...]
Silver Tsunami to Suburbs
Between now and 2030, the over-65 population will double in the nation’s suburbs, says the author of a new book.
“Suburban areas can expect a ’silver tsunami,’” says William H. Hudnut III, one of the authors of Changing Metropolitan America: Planning for a Sustainable Future (Urban Land Institute, $36.95). And if you don’t like the phrase [...]
No One Better Than Dylan
When’s the last time in your life that a single song evoked an entire era? There may be no singer who does that for boomers better than Bob Dylan. Veronica and David James went to see him, and came away knowing it was worth the effort. As David writes, there’s always an [...]
Time … Where Has It Gone?
Are things moving a little faster than they used to? Boomer writer Carol Stanley thinks so, and has figured out one thing: time is irretrievable.
Time … Where has it gone? We talk about time all the time, but have little understanding about its dimensions. Sometimes it goes fast, and sometimes it [...]