As
the boomer generation ages, many are looking for a smaller home — one that's the right size, with a floor plan that makes single - level living possible, but with space for visiting family members and entertaining friends.
As the baby
boomer generation ages, many home owners likely will choose to «age in place» and will require remodeling to better suit their changing needs.
By Andrew Feldstein Feldstein Family Law Group As the baby
boomer generation ages, their children face the prospect of having to support them.
As the baby
boomer generation ages, more and more Americans are planning for the end of life.
The industry is seeing more of a need for qualified nurses as the baby
boomer generation ages.
As the baby
boomer generation ages, a surge in elderly congregants will provide a tremendous opportunity to American churches.
As the baby
boom generation ages, even more seniors will have trouble putting enough food on the table.
With Florida's large senior population and the Baby
Boomer generation aging into retirement, elderly neglect and nursing home abuse is on the rise and becoming a particularly serious problem in the Sunshine State.
As the baby
boom generation ages, the population of nursing homes is also expanding.
As the Baby
Boom generation ages, you'll be at the forefront in caring for those people as they require more health care than ever.
Demand for seniors» housing is expected to increase as the baby
boom generation ages, spurring an increase in seniors» construction units ahead of actual demand.
With the baby
boomer generation aging and modern medicine allowing us all to live longer than we'd imagined a century ago, the percentage of people in the housing market with disabilities will likely grow in the coming years.
Not exact matches
As the Baby
Boomer generation begins to hit retirement
age, millions will be searching for places to retire.
But now, with the
aging baby
boom generation threatening to strain the country's single - payer system to the breaking point, provinces are exploring new avenues of public - private partnership.
Moreover, the admittedly quite uncertain long - term budget exercises released by the CBO last October maintain an implicit on - budget surplus under baseline assumptions well past 2030 despite the budgetary pressures from the
aging of the baby -
boom generation, especially on the major health programs.
Generation X (
aged 35 to 54) is saving 8 % of their income and working baby
boomers (55 and older) are socking away just 5 %.
Baby
Boomers — those 77 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 — will begin reaching retirement
age in the next few years; demographic experts say the
generations coming up behind them simply don't have the numbers to fill all those vacancies.
Not only that, the arrival of the baby -
boom generation at retirement
age over the next two decades will see the ratio of seniors to working -
age people (
aged 20 to 64) go from just over 1:5 in 2006 to 1:2 by 2056.
Overall, a majority (51 %) of respondents
aged 18 - 34 said they thought that «the policies and actions undertaken by the Baby
Boomer generation» had made things worse for America.
By
age group, however,
boomers reported significantly less multitasking, logging only 10.3 hours of activity, while
Generation Y clocked 22.9 hours.
In other words, demographics alone have shaved two percentage points off participation, as the large baby
boomer generation started to reach retirement
age around the start of the recession.»
The
generation with the largest chunk of savers holding equity stakes at least 10 percentage points above Fidelity's recommended allocation for their
age is baby
boomers, coming in at 26 percent.
«As the baby -
boom generation approaches retirement
age, the number of cases of impotence will [likely] increase,» noted the company's annual report in 1996.
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We compared the responses of Millennials with those of consumers of other
generations — Gen - Xers (
ages 35 to approximately 49), baby
boomers (
ages approximately 50 to 69), and the so - called silents (
ages approximately 70 and older).
Only 13 % said they would shift out of their current positions and into cash, but that was also the highest of the
age groups surveyed: only 8 % of
Generation X investors plan to cash out over the second half of 2017, while just 7 % of baby
boomers expect to.
Home prices have increased 250 % since 1980 and Millennials under 25 are spending 7.7 % more of their wallet on housing than the
Boomer generation did at that
age.3 As a result, the number of non-married people under 35 sharing a home or apartment has grown.
This year, Millennials — born between 1980 and 1996 — eclipsed
Boomers as America's largest
generation, numbering 83 million.2 However, the two
generations came of
age in vastly different worlds.
Even though the current Millennials
ages 25 to 32 are better educated than the
generations of young adults who preceded them, 14 the survey found only one significant generational difference in the overall perceived value of their education in preparing them for a job and career — some 41 % of Millennials
ages 25 to 32, 45 % of Gen Xers and 47 % of Baby
Boomers say their schooling was «very useful» in getting them ready to enter the labor force.
This is because Nielsen only counts
Boomers between the
ages of 55 and 64 instead of the full
generation, which is
aged 55 - 72.
The series also explores how the
aging of the baby
boomer generation will affect politics and well - being.
With the youngest
boomer age 50 and most of the
generation retiring over the next 16 years, making the right investment decision has become more crucial than ever before, as the risk of making speculative gambles can no longer be entertained.
The GOBankingRates survey was conducted as three Google Consumer Surveys, each targeted at one of three
age groups: millennials,
Generation Xers, and baby
boomers and seniors.
Even the younger set find these benefits appealing, with 82 per cent of those
ages 20 to 37 (millennials) and 81 per cent of those
ages 38 to 52 (
generation X) citing the benefits as a critical factor in accepting a job, compared to 74 per cent of baby
boomers (
ages 53 to 71), found the survey by management consulting firm Accenture.
TORONTO, January 27, 2015 - While a majority (72 per cent) of younger Canadians
aged 18 to 34 say they owe it to their parents to keep them comfortable in retirement, a higher majority (76 per cent) of their parents»
Boomer generation (
aged 50 - 69) doesn't want this «IOU», according to the 2015 RBC Financial Independence in Retirement Poll.
You said, «Overall what I get from this is that at the same
age millennials are in most ways almost identical to
boomers and gen xers at the same
age, with all three groups differing more from the
generations prior.
Overall what I get from this is that at the same
age millennials are in most ways almost identical to
boomers and gen xers at the same
age, with all three groups differing more from the
generations prior.
The church attendance drop does appear to be genuine, but small, when you compare rates at same
age, but the prayer difference seems to be just an
age issue: «Although Millennials report praying less often than their elders do today, the GSS shows that Millennials are in sync with
Generation X and Baby
Boomers when members of those
generations were younger.»
When angry
boomers and their «greatest
generation» elders talked about my
generation, they'd always accuse us of caustic irony and cynicism — it seems we had ushered in a golden
age of sarcasm.
A
Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby
Boom Generation by wade clark roof harpercollins, 311 pages, $ 20 Beyond Establishment: Protestant Identity in a Post-Protestant
Age ed.
With less fanfare than
Boomers received coming up, a new
generation of youth has come of
age behind them and now occupies young adulthood.
Just 26 percent of millennials were married, compared to 36 percent of Gen Xers, 48 percent of
boomers and 65 percent of the silent
generation at the same
age.
Research shows that the number of sexual partners shifted substantially, from 2.16 for the Greatest
Generation to 11.68 for the 1950s - born
Boomers (controlled for
age).
«The time for the great reversal is at hand,» conclude Hartford Seminary sociologists David Roozen and William McKinney, whose recent study indicates that 42 per cent of the baby -
boom generation are returning to church (reported in the January 21, 1987, issue of the Lutheran) Many people between the
ages of 18 and 35 who attended church only occasionally before 1970 are now attending regularly, their survey shows.
Even as a whole though, the millennial
generation (defined here as those born between 1980 — 2000) have fewer sexual partners than the last two
generations (
Boomers and Xers) did at their
age.
One study finds that «despite living in an
age of iPads and hybrid cars, young Americans are more like the young adults of the early 1900s than the baby -
boom generation: They are living at home longer, are financially insecure, and are making lower wages.»
That said, the
boomers haven't saved much (or so I understand) but I don't think we're going to
age and live (nursing homes, etc.) as our parents»
generation, either.
«Trillion Dollar Moms: Marketing to a New
Generation of Mothers» (Dearborn, 2005) focuses on the emergence of Gen X and Gen Y moms and how they compare with the
aging Boomer Mom segment.
Huge inequalities are prevalent within each
generation, with poverty and ill health rife even among the so - called lucky
generation of baby -
boomers: 1.8 million people over state pension
age are currently living below the poverty line and three quarters of NHS clients are
aged 65 and over.
The risk of developing
age - related macular degeneration is much less in the Baby
Boom (1946 - 1964) and later
generations than in earlier
generations, for unclear reasons.