Robin Marantz Henig is a baby boomer and a veteran magazine journalist focussing on science.
The Baby Boomer retirement planning wreckage which daily is becoming more apparent could have been avoided.
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Long before there was Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis was the hero of the Baby Boomer generation.
Diabetes prevalence increases with age, so the aging baby boomer population is attributing to rising costs.
Jerry Shereshewsky, the self-described "chief grown-up" at the firm GrownUpMarketing, is a baby boomer.
So they weren't necessarily as educated or as financially secure, they weren't the typical baby boomer.
But this baby boomer, at least, is prepared to do his bit to save the world economy.
As the Baby Boomer demographic hump inexorably inched its way toward retirement their savings rate steadily fell.
We encourage Baby Boomer business owners to wake up to the risk, and face up to the challenge.
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Above all, Honda is betting its baby boomer customers who grew up with the brand will stay loyal.
As the Baby Boomer generation ages, roughly 10, 000 Americans turn 65 every day and qualify for Medicare benefits.
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The study, A Post-Crisis Assessment of Retirement Income Adequacy for Baby Boomer and Gen Xers, is available here.
If you can offer an effective exit plan for the baby boomer, you help your employee and your company.
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As a baby boomer who at various times has wrestled with all of these demons, I can certainly relate.
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If nothing else, the 2008 presidential primaries have hurt the baby boomer brand.
For now, baby boomer mentors will just have to learn a little patience.
This deficit is set to increase as the baby boomer generation faces retirement.
On top of this lies the problem of an aging population, exacerbated by the size of the baby boomer demographic.
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The population also is aging: Every eight seconds, another Baby Boomer turns 65, an age when health problems typically increase.
With the graying of our country's baby boomer population, the U.S. is on the verge of a vision loss epidemic.
My spouse is a baby boomer of the age where landing a new job is tougher than it once was.
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That debt will experience exponential growth as the baby boomer generation adds 10, 000 retirees per day to the entitlement program roles.
But our baby boomer generation started out so liberal that we need the input of younger people to temper our natural inclinations.
The baby boomer generation is, as you know, here, and we're going to be using more of the Medicaid and Medicare services.
Boom time: A sharp increase in births after World War II created the baby boomer generation, born into an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity.
The retiring baby boomer population is fueling the market for retirement products.
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This would be fine for a Baby Boomer, or even a Gen X employee, but not for the young employee starting out.
The rising baby boomer population can then expect to face the considerable challenge of getting quality healthcare on a timely and consistent basis.
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But explaining these terms to your average young person is like trying to convince a baby boomer to lay off the Like button.
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Every year for the next two decades, roughly 3 to 4 million seniors become newly eligible for Medicare as the baby boomer generation ages.
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