baby-boomers

It was beginning to look as if we could handle the baby boomers retirement after all.

Fathers from the 'greatest generation' down to the baby boomers came of age at a time of vastly different expectations.

Mr Willetts is not the only writer to worry about baby-boomers crashing through society like a flash flood.

THIS SPECIAL REPORT has shown how the cost of providing pensions is rising across the developed world as the baby-boomers retire.

Yet with a little imagination it's possible even for baby boomers to understand what it's like to be in the middle of the odyssey years.

It's possible, after all, that the baby boomers will hang on to power, keeping Gen X in a Prince Charles-like holding pattern.

The baby boomers , who entered adulthood promising a lifetime of activism, have been a politically undistinguished generation.

And, you know, all those baby boomers have to retire someday, and when that happens, there will be jobs available in academe.

And with baby boomers edging closer to retirement, there is less desire to take a chance on U. S. stocks.

This was the apex of the number of baby boomers in high school, and the counselors rationed the time spent on each student's paperwork.

As the baby boomers retire and seek to realise the value tied up in their homes, supply may start to weigh on the market.

FROM the moment they entered the workforce in the 1960s, baby-boomers began to shape America's economy and politics.

The U. S. study found three quarters of all baby boomers considered themselves to be middle-aged or younger, even if they were in their 60s.

And that rate of spending was already unsustainable at a time when the baby-boomers are starting to retire in large numbers.

back in the 60 ' s the baby boomers were getting married in scuba gear , " he said" .

"Baby boomers are going to be very different seniors, " he says.

Baby boomers might be the best placed to appreciate this, since they experienced Rock 'n' Roll as kids and Google as parents.

In total, almost a quarter of baby boomers had provided financial support to grown children at least once in the previous six months.

British baby-boomers tended to believe their houses were all the piggy bank they needed.

In the next two to four years, retiring manager baby boomers will trigger a wave of new openings for high-responsibility jobs, says Levit.

Chris Hill says Mexico provides a great opportunity for aging baby boomers in the United States to live better on their retirement funds.

The atmosphere in which he grew up was markedly different from the socially tumultuous 1960s that shaped earlier baby boomers' outlook.

Baby boomers who smoked pot in their youth do not share previous generations' fear of the demon weed.

Do you think we Baby Boomers should start considering natural healing, alternative medicine, to save money and be healthier?

As the baby-boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) retire over the next two decades, the burden on the state will rise sharply.

A cynic might see the festival as a prime example of how coddled the baby boomers were in an economy of abundance.

the number of children under the age of 6 and 7-12 years of age, which are significant factors for baby boomers.

Baby-boomers have done well out of the welfare state.

Steady inflows into stock funds, as baby boomers acted on the belief that stocks did best in the long run, fuelled the boom of the 1990s.

The ratio fell sharply as the baby boomers reached their prime saving years, hitting a low in 2000 at the time of dotcom mania.

Young Baby Boomers caught onto this fact , and used debt in a manner in which their Depression era-schooled parents were afraid to .

In coming years, all countries may have to fight over a shrinking global savings pool as baby boomers retire.

On top of this, older baby-boomers have dodged two speeding bullets, leaving their descendants squarely in the line of fire.

He warns, wisely, of the looming budgetary calamity when baby-boomers start claiming Medicare (public health care for the elderly).

The OBR report sought to put a number on the much-discussed problem of retiring baby-boomers.

Long after President Bush's term ends, his economic policies will leave both baby boomers and the American economy in a bind.

The real test will come when baby boomers start to retire in significant numbers over the next five years.

All that these blockbuster concert revenues really tell us is that Baby Boomers have credit cards and their children have access to them.

We know retiring baby boomers will cause a shortage of employees throughout the system.

To which we could also add that Baby Boomers got John Lennon's life.

In general, baby boomers found once they reached their sixties it was nowhere near as bad as they thought.

And, as is the case in other industries, Baby Boomers are aging out of oil engineering jobs, creating even more openings in the market.

Moreover, older bodies tend to sag. As the baby boomers age, they need support they may have dispensed with in their youth.

The trends report also envisages Europe's public services and welfare system threatened by the expense of paying for retiring baby-boomers.

In the developed world, age-related spending on health care and other services is likely to reduce savings rates as the baby boomers retire.

Dutch baby-boomers have (until recently) enjoyed ever higher incomes, while retaining their taste for protesting and being experimental.

With their shares and homes worth far less than they were, baby-boomers must now save harder for retirement.

Nursing homes will be a boom industry , with the number of over-70s moving into care set to surge and the baby boomers to follow .

But now, some Generation Xers and younger baby boomers are quietly refusing to have their midlife crises the old-fashioned way.

Disposable diapers, baby food, stockings , sanitary napkins . . . these products of grown-up baby boomers are all hot sellers.

Some metal-fabrication companies also are scrambling to replace baby boomers who retired during the recession.

The banks have stepped into the breach as public-pension funds become net sellers of JGBs to provide funds to retiring baby-boomers.

Also eating away at risk tolerance is demographics: Baby boomers are aging, making them think more about preserving their holdings' value.

Many baby-boomers say they never want to bow out altogether, though they would often prefer to put in shorter hours.

Eventually, the last echoes of the global baby boomers will fade away.

The nation, with its glut of middle-aged baby boomers, is getting older.

Those who target ageing baby-boomers often do so through their private banks, where relationships are already established.

Dentistry is a baby boomer industry, and there aren't enough young dentists to fill the gaps when those baby boomers retire.

Ms Coronado notes that household size shrank over recent decades first as birth rates declined, then as baby boomers' children moved out.

with the aging population and the Baby Boomers coming along, we actually are going to be needing all the senior housing we can get.

Those were labels once pinned to their parents, the baby boomers who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s.

As more baby boomers delay retirement andwork until older ages, they may find themselves working for a younger boss.

Baby Boomers make up a significant proportion of cosmetic surgery clients.

For baby-boomers, a computer was a standalone PC running Microsoft software.

Competitive, status conscious parents, many of them baby boomers, put a premium on getting into these elite institutions.

Baby Boomers were four times more likely than seniors to have trouble paying for healthcare, according to the report.

He points out that unlike the Baby Boomers, there is no agreed upon start (or end) year for the Generation.

Thus, it may come to pass that deceased baby boomers will someday help power your household appliances.

The imminent retirement of the baby-boomers is a chance to hire a new generation of workers with different contracts.

The baby boomers will be forced to increase their savings as they approach retirement, he argues.

The cost of entitlements has been rising vertiginously, and will do so even faster as the baby-boomers retire.

A more flexible labour market and the retirement of well-paid baby-boomers have pushed down average wages.

Federal government goes after millions of retiring baby boomers to replace colleagues eligible to retire.

millions of soon - to - retire baby boomers , say demographers , will propel this trend for years to come.

BUt the reservoir of women able and willing to take up paid work is running low, and the baby-boomers are going grey.

For the past 16 years, baby boomers, who were formed by the tumult of the 1960s, occupied the White House.

For baby boomers, the questions are: 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot? ' or 'What were you doing when Nixon resigned? '

In the USA, the $3 trillion social security surplus will disappear within 30 years as large numbers of baby-boomers enter the system.

Baby Boomers have the least degree of confidence.

One recent survey found that forty-four percent of baby boomers feel secure in their readiness for retirement.

This generation of baby boomers largely controls the news media and cultural life.

Now that the oldest baby boomers are turning 65, he says, their sheer numbers may attract industries that had earlier shied away.

This year, the oldest of the baby boomers, who make up a quarter of the population, are turning 65.

Q: Dr. Kase, how can baby boomers who are considering their next career move bring their previous experience into new leadership situations?

China's baby boomers born during 1962 to 1980 entered their golden time of life, and housing has become one of their prime needs.

The demographic picture looks different now that the baby-boomers are starting to retire.

In the US retiring baby boomers are creating critical worker shortages in logistics and warehousing.

They expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers.

Whale meat holds sentimental value for some Japanese baby- boomers and older people who ate it after the devastation of World War II.

Japanese baby-boomers carry on buying music at an age by which earlier generations had largely stopped.

And middle-aged "baby boomers" are rapidly entering the groups of the elderly.

The baby boomers are now starting to retire and claim Social Security and Medicare benefits.

Remembering the good times, retiring baby boomers are nostalgic for the glorious past.

The findings suggest that in advanced years baby boomers retain their determination to cling to their youth.

Starting in this decade, the baby boomers' retirement will leave a gaping hole in the executive ranks.

Starting in January, more than 10, 000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, a pattern that will continue for the next 19 years.

As millions of baby boomers reach retirement age, the demands on the SSA will only get more pressing.

Baby boomers are retiring in large numbers; the young are more racially diverse than ever.

For the baby boomers' children, mass unemployment will be something new.

Germany's labour market is already facing skill shortages, which will intensify from 2010 when the postwar baby boomers enter retirement.

At present the newspaper-loving baby-boomers are propping up circulation.

The picture is no better for those still working, either-including millions of baby boomers nearing retirement.

That is nicely timed to coincide with the enormous cost of shoring up Medicare and Social Security, as baby boomers retire.

For these insurers, Medicare Advantage gives access to baby-boomers.

Q: How can Baby Boomers in businesses find out more about becoming confident leaders?

That toll was expected to rise sharply as population grew and baby boomers aged.

Doug: Because by the year 2012, all the baby boomers are gonna be retired.

Demography played its part. The baby boomers created a huge bulge in the workforce and in the pension system.

That refusal to settle for being "old" will only get stronger as the baby-boomers start turning 65.

A survey released last week found one reason America doesn't top the list: Baby Boomers are compared to other generations.

Well, we aging Boomers, Baby Boomers, we're eating our healthy food, we're exercising.

Its greatest costs begin a half-decade and more from now, and retiring baby boomers may find themselves at ground zero.

It also means that they will be confronted with a wave of retirements as the baby-boomers leave work in droves.

Who said Baby Boomers would never accept their parents' doctor's brand?

More than 80% of the 78 million baby boomers will likely retire before they become eligible for Medicare.

It's a particular problem for baby-boomers, the large, rich, spoilt generation born after the second world war.

The baby boomers enjoyed an incredible spending binge.

The baby boomers are saving publishing; after them, the deluge?

Their baby-boomers are ageing, with fewer young adults to support them.

She largely attributes this to baby boomers' continuing concerns about the job market and their ability to send their children to college.

That is especially valuable when a generation of prosperous baby-boomers is preparing to give away billions.

But Japan has high debt levels and America has the government-bankrupting cost of ageing baby-boomers.

Coined in 1990, the term "helicopter parenting" is used to describe overprotective parents, who are mostly middle-class baby boomers.

The baby boomers aren't looking for a new land.

As baby-boomers reach retirement, the reverse may happen.

But unless we get to work now, any breakthrough will come too late to benefit the baby boomers.

Our debt ratios are set to increase dramatically when the baby boomers retire.

We also know there's a baby bust generation following the baby boomers.

As these global baby boomers age, theywill create a population explosion of seniors.

By 2000, as budget surpluses mounted, candidate Al Gore proposed they bereserved for baby boomers' Social Security.

To the baby boomers, work-life balance usually meant having enough time to spend with the family.

So we'll have not just designer babies, but designer baby boomers.

Of course, baby boomers are big investors in shares.

But that might change as baby boomers start to reassess how they want to spend their golden years.

About half of the baby-boomers say they plan to work past 65.

Even in America the ageing of the baby-boomers points to a slower-growing workforce.

THE first of about 76 million baby boomers in the United States turned 65 in January.

This is particularly important as the market thins with baby boomers on the verge of retirement, Mr. Yacullo says.

The first group of so-called baby boomers, Americans born after World War II, turns 65 this year.

Many baby boomers are deferring retirement because of poor personal finances and heavy debts.

The baby-boomers will upset the pattern.

Baby boomers believe that middle age lasts until they are 70, a study has found.

Baby boomers still want to have sex.

And it's the teenagers who are the sleepiest of all, with baby boomers getting the most sleep.

And in case you hadn't noticed, there will soon be a lot more seniors around because the baby boomers have started reaching retirement age.

WHEN Wendy Wasserstein died in 2006, aged 55, a generation of baby- boomers mourned the loss.

The baby boomers are all grown-ups now.

The baby boomers were one such bulge.

For baby boomers, these numbers drop to 50% and 44% respectively.

The demographic bulge caused by the baby-boomers helped at first: when the promises were made, the ratio of workers to retirees was high.

The generation that is fighting the Vietnam war are the baby boomers.

That is the biggest way in which baby boomers have cheated their children.

Today's workplace is very different from the one baby boomers navigated.

We baby-boomers have grown up. We know there are limits to freedom.

Those idiosyncratic baby-boomers who were persuaded to trade in their LPs for CDs 20 years ago are now being told to buy records once again.

The baby boomers may be aging but they still love to play.

The first wave of Baby Boomers turned 65 earlier this year.

This is the year the first baby-boomers turn 60, including Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton.

Twenty years ago, some 60% of Baby Boomers was satisfied with their jobs. Today, that figure is roughly 46%.

Baby Boomers, for example, are looking for quiet, soothing dining environments while Tweens demand interaction and innovation.

Many of the 457 people surveyed are Baby Boomers and are self-made, first-generation rich and have "a distinct generational mindset. "

Y2K 10 was coming, the baby boomers starting to retire.

McKinsey estimates that US companies will need to fill 34m net jobs between 2005 and 2015 as baby boomers retire.

But just 55 percent of Baby Boomers - those age 47 to 66 - said they share that sentiment.

At the same age, Americans born in 1950, the baby boomers, had 13. 2 years.

When it comes to travel for baby boomers, the world literally is your oyster.

Roughly 100 baby boomers turn 60 every 18 minutes in this country.

In January 2006 the first of America's 77m baby-boomers turned 60.

Whenit comes to travel for baby boomers, the world literally is your oyster.

In America more than 10, 000 baby-boomers will become eligible for Social Security and Medicare every day for the next two decades.

One reason could be a demographic shift, with baby boomers dropping out of the workforce;

But the real problem is that the first baby-boomers retired last year.

Watch your wallets: the baby-boomers are beginning to retire

The economic legacy left by the baby-boomers is leading to a battle between the generations

The opportunity cost of wives time and housing tenure are significant factors affecting FAFH for the baby boomers and Generation X;

Theeconomic legacy left by the baby-boomers is leading to a battle between thegenerations

growing old is no fun for us baby boomers

Forever young: Baby boomers believe that middle age lasts until they are 70, a study has found

in 2007 , many baby boomers will turn 60 , but will not necessarily retire

For many of the baby boomers,

The median age at first marriage in the early 1970s, when the baby boomers were young, was 21 for women and 23 for men;

Governments, employers and workers all need to change to keep baby-boomers on the job