The Greatest Generation is leaving us at an ever increasing rate. So, even if we’re not totally prepared, the torch is being passed to the Pre-boomers (those born between 1930 and 1945) – now known as New Seniors. Beginning next years, boomers will turn 65 at the rate of one every ten seconds through 2030. [...]
We worked, we saved and we believed retirement could be a relatively stable period for us. Boy, were we wrong. The lose of value in our pension accounts, low returns on the investments we still had, home prices falling, freezing of Social Security benefits and severe cut backs in Medicare add up to fear of [...]
Starting later this year, the boomers turning 65 will be talked about in the media, not because of something they did but because of something that is happening to them: they are reaching retirement age. Baby boomers are newsworthy partly because of the size of this demographic and due to the non-conforming nature of this [...]
Those born between 1930 and 1945 grew up in an area when no other sport rivaled baseball. It was the first sport pre-boomers learned to play, one that most boys participated in and had great fun doing it. The exercise benefit was lost on us; we just liked playing catch with our dad or the [...]
Being referred to as “middle class” when pre-boomers were kids indicated that a family had more than the necessities of life. In the boom times after WWII, more and more people qualified for this title. To be middle class meant having a house, a car, a TV set and probably being able to take some [...]
