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.
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It's equally important
for aging boomers.
This double squeeze has millennials with almost stagnant incomes facing ever - increasing taxes to pay
for aging boomers» care.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
As the Baby
Boomer generation begins to hit retirement
age, millions will be searching
for places to retire.
Millennial small business owners have more confidence in their retirement savings than baby
boomers, according to our survey, possibly because millennial owners started their business at a younger
age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time
for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirement plans.
Community service managers will be needed as
boomer age and the demand
for programs like adult day - care and meal delivery increases.
Home healthcare in particular is in high demand, mainly because
aging Baby
Boomers want to stay in their homes as long as possible and are opting
for in - home nursing care and assistance rather than moving to assisted - living facilities.
As our country's population continues to
age (according to the U.S. Census, by the year 2030, there will be over 57.8 million «baby
boomers» between the
ages of 66 and 84), the demand
for quality homecare is sure to increase.
As Baby
Boomers age into their golden years, there's a growing need to care
for them.
«As the next wave of
boomers retire, Canada is expected to see lower revenue growth and higher expenditures
for Old
Age Security and health costs,» says Page.
For example, not only are millions of Baby
Boomers now reaching retirement
age, some 90 million so - called Millennials or «Gen - Yers» are now entering the workforce — and creating new patterns of consumption and demand, says Jack Plunkett, CEO at Plunkett Research.
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.
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.
Says Hillman: «She gave the answer that
boomers caring
for aging parents hear all the time: «I know you're busy and didn't want to bother you.»»
Unfortunately, what feels «just right» to today's button - downed male baby
boomer male often feels «too cold»
for women of any
age because, as science has repeatedly shown, women get colder faster and more easily than men.
Canadian demographer David Foot, who made a name
for himself following the entrails of the baby
boom and wrote the book Boom, Bust and Echo, has been warning for years that an aging workforce inevitably leads to slower economic gro
boom and wrote the book
Boom, Bust and Echo, has been warning for years that an aging workforce inevitably leads to slower economic gro
Boom, Bust and Echo, has been warning
for years that an
aging workforce inevitably leads to slower economic growth.
Next Avenue's Gig Economy: Better
for Boomers Than Millennials covers the growing trend of retirement
age Americans choosing to work in the gig economy.
As the baby
boomers reach retirement
age there will be more of a need
for this product.
Proving that it's never too late to pursue your passions, data from the 2016 Kauffman Startup Index indicates that while baby
boomers currently account
for 25 percent of new business owners, the last few years show the number of
boomer entrepreneurs are on the rise at a rate that outpaces other
age groups.
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).
The BLS observes «The leading edge of the baby
boomers (those born in 1946) became eligible
for early Social Security benefits at
age 62 in 2008 and reached full retirement
age at 66 in 2012.
By
age 31, you sell your website
for $ 1.2 million dollars in 2000 at the height of the dot - com
boom.
Monthly guaranteed income is the most important single trait that
aging baby
boomers look
for in a retirement investment, ranked No. 1 or No. 2 by 41 % of participants in the latest annual survey of retirement expectations and preparedness conducted...
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.
Meanwhile, an
aging baby
boomer population means demand
for health care services will likely continue to grow.
Mitchell, who died two years ago at
age 94, was reportedly among those urging
for tighter regulation of the practice, fearing that small, independent drillers might take dangerous shortcuts as they rushed to participate in a historic oil
boom.
The retirement of the baby
boomers over the next several decades will mean astronomic increases in costs, notably
for health care, with relatively fewer people of working
age to pay them.
Three of those were mentioned above: Retire early, retire on time (
age 66 or 67
for most baby -
boomers) or retire late.
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.
There are 10,000 baby
boomers retiring every day
for the next 20 years, so obviously many advisors will be retiring as well, considering the average
age of all financial advisors in somewhere in the 50s.
While only 12.6 percent of respondents between the
ages of 25 and 34 are concerned with retirement, 34 percent of baby
boomers find planning
for retirement a challenge.
More than half of American baby
boomers (born from 1946 - 1964) plan to work past
age 65 or not retire at all, according to a report by the Transamerica Center
for Retirement Studies.
So there's a large percentage of the
boomers who own homes, and typically they bought these homes when they were younger and had families and so there's going to be a huge incentive
for them as they
age to unload these houses.
«The longer term outlook is especially positive
for multifamily construction, reflecting the
aging of the baby
boomers and an associated shift in demand from single - family to multifamily housing.
Another 18 percent take benefits at full retirement
age (66
for most baby
boomers), and only 3 percent waited until 70.
These buses could be used
for when many baby
boomers should not drive due to
age, as well.
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.
For many of the
boomers who went to college in the analog
age, they have to get up to speed in a hurry to learn in the digital era.
We have millions of baby
boomers who are reaching
ages where they require alot of medical care
for the problems that are simply a part of the
aging process.
The food industry needs to take note: 84 % of millennials are reportedly willing to pay more
for natural foods and drinks versus 50 % of
boomers, and 46 % of these
aged 18 - 34 would not buy foods that are not clean label, with 44 % of those
aged 35 - 44 years feeling the same way.
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.
It has become increasingly common
for politicians and commentators to criticise the attitudes, behaviour and lifestyle of the «baby
boomers», who are now entering old
age.
With
Boomers retiring and the population
aging, access to medical offices, service establishments, restaurants, theaters, and other public accommodations is a salient issue
for our membership.
The industry is seeing more of a need
for qualified nurses as the baby
boomer generation
ages.
As the baby
boomer generation
ages, more and more Americans are planning
for the end of life.