Sentences with phrase «aging boomers»

They can be tough for aging boomers and young children to climb into and out of; many don't come with a bar to grip, though sometimes that can be added.

Are other genres that appeal more to traditional aging boomers and written by unknown authors selling in this format?

Whatever the reason, the trend is toward more debt and more spending by the rapidly aging boomer population.

«We've been expecting the first - wave of aging boomers for quite some time,» says Elton Ash, regional executive vice-president, Re / Max of Western Canada.

Homes near converted tracks aren't the only places being sought out by aging boomers and other refugees from the suburbs.

Aging boomers don't want to move out of their homes as they head into retirement, according to the results of a new poll.

With aging boomers making up the majority of its most loyal customers, the coffee chain is keen on drawing in younger consumers, says Doug Hunter, author of Double Double: How Tim Hortons Became a Canadian Way of Life, One Cup at a Time.

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But as aging boomers work longer, they may have less time for leisure travel, says Bach.

The term «newcomers» is code for a couple of demographic subsets, one being women, the other aging boomers — people with time on their hands, replacement hips and money to spend.

Other factors — including the increasing appeal of freelance life among young professionals, as well as retirement - age boomers looking for short - term «career epilogue» contracts — suggest the era of the «company man» is over.

Regardless of the source, recipes for granola — favorite breakfast cereal turned traveling - snack of hippies, West Coast hipsters, and aging boomers alike — are as numerous and varied as are the ingredients used to make them.

Charlebois said that the one per cent figure is likely closer to two per cent now as busy Canadians look to save time on grocery trips, and both online - shopping savvy millennials and aging boomers test the services.

«We see strong activity from aging boomers who enjoy the companionship of pets and a large group of Millennials who view cats as lower - maintenance pets than dogs,» says Diskin.

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And indeed, I find the whole idea a bit depressing — aging boomers alone in big empty suburban, robotic homes, sitting in vibrating barcaloungers with their Oculus Rift headsets on.

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Stephen P. Gallagher's contribution to LawPro «s Aging Boomers edition, «Winding down the law practice: Retirement as a renewal process» deals with the important (though touchy - feely) topic of retirement as a growth stage — «The transition we call retirement is actually the beginning of a new career / life stage called «renewal.

Meanwhile, the LawPro Aging Boomer article «The boomer challenge: Are lawyers ready?»

Although aging boomers are leading the charge for recreational properties, younger boomers and Generation X have also bolstered demand for properties from British Columbia to Newfoundland.

«The urban experience has drawn aging boomers and echo boomers back downtown, while many young singles and couples have turned to condominium ownership to take advantage of low interest rates, and as a first step toward accumulating net worth,» says Benson.

A large, aging Boomer population means that «for the most part people are going to have to stay in their own homes,» says aging expert Lee Anne Davies.

If our aim is to train yoga therapists who will best serve the needs of aging boomers and wellness seekers, it forces us to ask entirely different questions:

In fact, according to a recent study by Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, 57 % of retirement - age Boomers don't like their current home and ten percent are planning a new home purchase within 12 months.

Aging Boomers who do not keep their technology skills up to date are creating barriers for themselves in the job market because it gives employers one more reason to reject older job seekers.

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Caring for aging boomers will be a big business, and there's an opportunity to create a subscription business whereby kids and grandkids send older relatives a surprise box of goodies to let them know people are thinking of them.

The aging boomer population is also a factor.

Factor in a growing desire among retirement - age boomers to keep working and you get an environment in which more young people are supervising their elders than ever before, notes Adwoa Buahene, managing partner of Toronto - based consultancy N - gen People Performance, which helps companies manage multigenerational workforces.

Aging boomers may find fewer buyers and lower offers.

The labor force participation rate is another important place to look in this regard, but it is a) a very noisy monthly indicator, and b) the overall rate is down in part due to retirement of aging boomers.

It also explains why we are forecasting that growing numbers of aging boomers will become independent workers and small business owners (again, see our baby boomer section for more on this).

And for the third time, real wages are going nowhere fast (2/3 of 1.5 % is due to oil prices) while an extra million people exited the job market the last four years unrelated to demographics (aging boomers).

Still, if she has the larger story right (and it is the same one that economists such as myself have been telling for a long time) then you can add the reality of low interests rates to the list of things that the aging boomers will no doubt lose sleep over.

This double squeeze has millennials with almost stagnant incomes facing ever - increasing taxes to pay for aging boomers» care.

«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.

Aging Boom / Fertility Bust Del Webb was no demographer, but in the late 1950s he saw an opportunity in America's budding crop of elderly.

Even with the cross-pond cultural differences, young adults who are perennially baffled by their aging boomer parents will feel right at home here.

For others, it's a symbol of aging boomers» mid-life crises.

It's equally important for aging boomers.

Apart from already - retired seniors and Boomers on the cusp of retirement, the cuts to tax rates on small businesses will also benefit those launching their own businesses — whether young tech - savvy entrepreneurs unable to break into their first corporate jobs or aging Boomers who have left salaried employment but aren't quite ready to pack it in.

Seniors and aging boomers, on the other hand, donâ $ ™ t have the luxury of time to make mistakes.

The population shift suggests that kids could be sidelined as we cater more and more to the needs of aging boomers.

The only solutions are to find ways to make pet ownership as easy as possible for all consumers and to convince younger generations that they need to consider pet ownership, with the hope that they can pick up the slack for the aging boomers.

While adventure cruises on small ships remain too pricey for many mainstream tourists, a growing number of lines are betting that aging boomers will be eager to marry luxury with discovery....

Perhaps these should be restricted to aging boomers.

Many small towns are experiencing a comeback these days; a combination of aging boomers and the green movement, combined with technology that lets people work just about anywhere make them a viable alternative to urban and suburban life.

TreeHugger loves cohousing, «a way for a group of people to work together to develop places to live that offer both privacy and community» and thought it particularly appropriate for aging boomers.

However two trends are causing them to rethink and redesign: companies like Wal - Mart (and their customers) are demanding more environmentally friendly packaging, and the aging boomers are having more trouble opening the stuff without hurting themselves.