Download or read book Boomers and Beyond Prescription for the Golden Years written by Heidemarie Rowe and published by . This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boomers and Beyond, Prescription for the Golden Years provides helpful nuts and bolts-information for 77 million Baby Boomers and 36 million American Seniors. Fear of declining physical and mental health, losses of loved-ones, financial losses, loneliness and feelings of helplessness when faced with one's own mortalilty are among those giants waiting to attack. Is there hope and purpose, or is senior life an expected downhill spiral? Seasoned with humor, quotes, lists, personal stories, the author shows how faith, love, and a positive mindset are vital for living the "Golden Years."
Download or read book Generation Ageless written by J. Walker Smith and published by HarperBusiness. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation Ageless—an authoritative and eye-opening look at the past, present, and future of Baby Boomers Think Baby Boomers are all alike? Think again. This dynamic generation is nearing the traditional age of retirement, but is in no mood to slow down. Learn how to market, sell to, do business with, or just understand this remarkable generation, from Yankelovich, Inc., the organization that knows them better than anyone else. Yankelovich actually coined the term "Baby Boomer" back in the late 1960s, when they first started collecting data on this influential generation. Now, more than thirty years later, they have the most complete information on Boomers ever assembled. And they have put it all together in this groundbreaking look at America's largest and most powerful generation. In Generation Ageless, Yankelovich president J. Walker Smith, Ph.D., and senior partner Ann Clurman, Boomers themselves, dig deep into what makes this generation tick. With fresh, original data and a wide-ranging look at everything about Boomers, they dissect Boomers into six major segments—Straight Arrows, Due Diligents, Maximizers, Sideliners, Diss/Contenteds, and Re-Activists—to provide new insights into the world's most talked-about generation. The results show key imperatives invaluable to anyone selling a product, service, or idea to this 78-million strong group. Boomers are the dominant generation in America. Their values and aspirations set the tone for everyone. Advances in medicine and health mean that this youth-obsessed generation is now focused on an everlasting prime of life. They are literally middle age–less: holding onto their position at the top of the pyramid for as long as possible, and not fading away to their golden years. Today's fifty- and sixty-year-old Boomers are not eagerly anticipating lives of disengaged retirement. Instead, middle age–less Boomers expect another twenty or thirty years of impact and influence—albeit in a variety of ways reflective of a surfeit of agendas and ambitions they have yet to fulfill.
Download or read book Generation Ageless written by J. Walker Smith and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation Ageless—an authoritative and eye-opening look at the past, present, and future of Baby Boomers Think Baby Boomers are all alike? Think again. This dynamic generation is nearing the traditional age of retirement, but is in no mood to slow down. Learn how to market, sell to, do business with, or just understand this remarkable generation, from Yankelovich, Inc., the organization that knows them better than anyone else. Yankelovich actually coined the term "Baby Boomer" back in the late 1960s, when they first started collecting data on this influential generation. Now, more than thirty years later, they have the most complete information on Boomers ever assembled. And they have put it all together in this groundbreaking look at America's largest and most powerful generation. In Generation Ageless, Yankelovich president J. Walker Smith, Ph.D., and senior partner Ann Clurman, Boomers themselves, dig deep into what makes this generation tick. With fresh, original data and a wide-ranging look at everything about Boomers, they dissect Boomers into six major segments—Straight Arrows, Due Diligents, Maximizers, Sideliners, Diss/Contenteds, and Re-Activists—to provide new insights into the world's most talked-about generation. The results show key imperatives invaluable to anyone selling a product, service, or idea to this 78-million strong group. Boomers are the dominant generation in America. Their values and aspirations set the tone for everyone. Advances in medicine and health mean that this youth-obsessed generation is now focused on an everlasting prime of life. They are literally middle age–less: holding onto their position at the top of the pyramid for as long as possible, and not fading away to their golden years. Today's fifty- and sixty-year-old Boomers are not eagerly anticipating lives of disengaged retirement. Instead, middle age–less Boomers expect another twenty or thirty years of impact and influence—albeit in a variety of ways reflective of a surfeit of agendas and ambitions they have yet to fulfill.
Download or read book Senior Boomers written by Beverly A. Potter and published by Ronin Publishing (CA). This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby boomers are the demographic group of 77.3 million born during the post-World War II between the years 1946 and 1964, making up 38 million. They are divided into two groups: Leading-Edge Boomers and Trailing Edge Boomers, making up 37, 818 million. The Leading Edge Boomers were born between 1946 and 1955. They are generally more experimental, individualistic, free-spirited, and social-cause oriented. By comparison Trailing Edge Boomers--who missed the "Summer-of-Love" were born between 1956 and 1964. As a group they are generally less optimistic, have a distrust of government and general cynicism. Baby boomers challenged the norms and demanded something different--and better at every stage. Senior-hood is no different. As Baby Boomers become Senior Boomer all aspects of aging, retiring, and dying will be challenged and radically altered. There is a demographic tsunami coming. 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day through 2030. In 2014 there were 40 million seniors. By 2050 it projected to be 89 million seniors. There is a coming crisis that will confront every municipality in America. Seniors struggling with adequate money, housing, health care, mobility, quality of life and death. Take finances. 46% of Senior Boomers have less than $10,000 in retirement savings, while 26% have no savings at all! They are relying on social security. In 2-14 there were 63 million recipients, while 91 million seniors on social security is projects for 2035. So while the number of recipients has grown dramatically, the number of workers support recipients has dropped precipitously, fro 42 workers for each recipient in 1945 to2.5 workers in 2035. Equally challenging are the coming crisis for seniors in housing, health care and end-of-life care. With crisis comes opportunity. Every one of the challenges facing seniors--and the communities where they live--is a potential gold mine for those who provide solutions to those challenges. Take housing. Senior Boomers are rewriting the playbook. Seniors want to stay in their home, which is known as "aging in place", which is to live in one's home, modifying the home and using products, services and conveniences to enable on to not have to move. Providing those services and products grow businesses that meet these needs. Retrofitting homes includes adding grab bars and ramps. Increasing the width of doorways. Adding a bathroom on the ground floor. Lowering counter tops and electrical switches. Adding pull out shelves. As a few examples. These projects can keep many handymen, contractors in business, architects, and City building Departments in business. SENIOR BOOMERS will explore the challenges they are bringing and ways to meet them along with the ways that Senior Boomers will change how we view and experience aging.
Download or read book Baby Boomer Survival Guide written by Barbara Rockefeller and published by Humanix Books. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As boomers prepare to retire in an economic climate that has many rethinking their plans, it is crucial that they take every facet of their golden years into consideration. DaVinci’s Baby Boomer Survival Guide is the premier roadmap to retirement with the postwar generation in mind. Authors Barbara Rockefeller and Nick Tate team up to craft this comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide that covers all necessary financial, healthcare, and lifestyle- related considerations, like: • Optimal retirement age and Social Security filing strategy • Intelligent investing • Housing and reverse mortgages • Wills and trusts • Long-term healthcare and Medicare • Staying healthy, both mentally and physically • Best places to live based on income, and much more... Don’t leave the best years of your life to chance — retire in comfort with the help of DaVinci’s Baby Boomer Survival Guide proven and sound advice.
Download or read book Baby Boomers and Beyond written by Michelle Mcallister and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging is the most natural, unpredictable yet manageable part of humanity. Baby Boomers and Beyond is a self-help guide that provides easy-to-apply suggestions and practical advice for those with a desire to age both healthfully and gracefully. Michelle McAllister brings a wealth of professional knowledge and volunteer experience in a variety of geriatric healthcare settings as she shares key points that will help the elderly and their caregivers create an effective action plan to not only take charge and manage their healthcare, but also to: Create a secure, financial portfolio Evaluate when it is the right time to change living arrangements Stay fulfilled through activities, friends, faith, and family Enjoy life, stay positive, and pursue passions Deal with changing family dynamics Baby Boomers and Beyond will teach seniors how to create a lasting legacy, make a ripple in the universe, and leave an impression on the world. Isn't it time to take charge of your future?
Download or read book Baby Boomer s Companion written by George Martin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby Boomers' Companion is a "fellow traveler" for a Boomer's trip along the road to aging. Many unusual changes take place between 60 and 70 years old. It offers, in a humorous way, an insight into how common those Boomers changes are. The changes are much different than offered by the "The Golden Years."
Download or read book Generation Ageless written by J. Walker Smith and published by HarperBusiness. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation Ageless—an authoritative and eye-opening look at the past, present, and future of Baby Boomers Think Baby Boomers are all alike? Think again. This dynamic generation is nearing the traditional age of retirement, but is in no mood to slow down. Learn how to market, sell to, do business with, or just understand this remarkable generation, from Yankelovich, Inc., the organization that knows them better than anyone else. Yankelovich actually coined the term "Baby Boomer" back in the late 1960s, when they first started collecting data on this influential generation. Now, more than thirty years later, they have the most complete information on Boomers ever assembled. And they have put it all together in this groundbreaking look at America's largest and most powerful generation. In Generation Ageless, Yankelovich president J. Walker Smith, Ph.D., and senior partner Ann Clurman, Boomers themselves, dig deep into what makes this generation tick. With fresh, original data and a wide-ranging look at everything about Boomers, they dissect Boomers into six major segments—Straight Arrows, Due Diligents, Maximizers, Sideliners, Diss/Contenteds, and Re-Activists—to provide new insights into the world's most talked-about generation. The results show key imperatives invaluable to anyone selling a product, service, or idea to this 78-million strong group. Boomers are the dominant generation in America. Their values and aspirations set the tone for everyone. Advances in medicine and health mean that this youth-obsessed generation is now focused on an everlasting prime of life. They are literally middle age–less: holding onto their position at the top of the pyramid for as long as possible, and not fading away to their golden years. Today's fifty- and sixty-year-old Boomers are not eagerly anticipating lives of disengaged retirement. Instead, middle age–less Boomers expect another twenty or thirty years of impact and influence—albeit in a variety of ways reflective of a surfeit of agendas and ambitions they have yet to fulfill.
Download or read book Prime Time written by Marc Freedman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2002-03-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the next three decades, the number of Americans over fifty will double, swelling to more than a quarter of the population. Already we are living thirty years longer than a century ago, with further gains expected in the coming years. The end result is a new stage of life, one as long or longer than childhood or middle age in duration, and one spent in unprecedented good health. Yet, as individuals, and as a society, we've shown little imagination or wisdom in using this great gift of a third age. Marc Freedman identifies the new longevity as not a problem to be solved, but an opportunity to be seized-provided we can engage the experience, talent, and idealism of older Americans. At a juncture when the middle-generation faces a time-famine, struggling to simultaneously raise kids and work long hours on the job, the older generation is awash in free time, poised to succeed women as the trustees of civic life in this country. In the process they stand to find new meaning and purpose in their lives, and abandon the limbo-like state unfulfilling for so many older individuals. Freedman argues that the aging phenomenon, the massive transformation that many portray as our downfall, may in fact be our best hope for renewal as a nation.
Download or read book Generation Ageless written by Ann Clurman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation Ageless--an authoritative and eye-opening look at the past, present, and future of Baby Boomers Think Baby Boomers are all alike? Think again. This dynamic generation is nearing the traditional age of retirement, but is in no mood to slow down. Learn how to market, sell to, do business with, or just understand this remarkable generation, from Yankelovich, Inc., the organization that knows them better than anyone else. Yankelovich actually coined the term "Baby Boomer" back in the late 1960s, when they first started collecting data on this influential generation. Now, more than thirty years later, they have the most complete information on Boomers ever assembled. And they have put it all together in this groundbreaking look at America's largest and most powerful generation. In Generation Ageless, Yankelovich president J. Walker Smith, Ph. D., and senior partner Ann Clurman, Boomers themselves, dig deep into what makes this generation tick. With fresh, original data and a wide-ranging look at everything about Boomers, they dissect Boomers into six major segments--Straight Arrows, Due Diligents, Maximizers, Sideliners, Diss/Contenteds, and Re-Activists--to provide new insights into the world's most talked-about generation. The results show key imperatives invaluable to anyone selling a product, service, or idea to this 78-million strong group. Boomers are the dominant generation in America. Their values and aspirations set the tone for everyone. Advances in medicine and health mean that this youth-obsessed generation is now focused on an everlasting prime of life. They are literally middle age-less: holding onto their position at the top of the pyramid for as long as possible, and not fading away to their golden years. Today's fifty- and sixty-year-old Boomers are not eagerly anticipating lives of disengaged retirement. Instead, middle age-less Boomers expect another twenty or thirty years of impact and influence--albeit in a variety of ways reflective of a surfeit of agendas and ambitions they have yet to fulfill.
Download or read book Youth Extension A to Z written by Beverly A. Potter and published by Ronin Pub. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a group, baby boomers are heading rapidly into their "golden years," and there's little doubt that they won't go lightly. But is the process really irrevocable and irreversible? With more financial resources than any other demographic, and the knowledge gained simply by living, boomers are in the best position to at least delay the aging process. This practical guide offers a wealth of ways to do that. Dr. Beverly Potter, who has written numerous books on enhancing one's lifestyle, includes but goes beyond anti-aging and life extension. Youthfulness, she says, is characterized by vigor, flexibility, bounciness, good health, physical shapeliness, beauty, curiosity, and mental acuity -- all of which can be achieved through the regimens the book describes. Potter takes a multifaceted approach, incorporating both current science and proven techniques into a program that stresses vitamins, nutrients, healthful foods, and supplements; activities and lifestyles; ways of thinking; sexual techniques; brain fitness training; and more.
Download or read book Your Golden Years Your Golden Challenge written by Herman Schmid and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book informs the reader of the major preventive health recommendations now practiced by the medical community. Prior to the middle of the last century medical care was primarily episodic. Patients did not see their doctor until they were acutely ill. Now, the advances in medical knowledge of disease processes and the availability of improved diagnostic techniques and treatments have focused medical practice on the prevention of disease. In other words, before the occurrence of a heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and even cancer, there are detectable underlying disorders which, when discovered and treated early, can prevent life limiting disease. Four underlying disorders, namely, high blood pressure, abnormal blood lipids, elevated blood sugar and overweight are major risk factors for the chronic diseases. Five chronic diseases, namely, coronary artery disease, cancer, lung disease, stroke and diabetes are responsible for 80% of deaths in the American population. This book presents a preventive care plan in seven steps designed to counter these risk factors and diseases, and extend both the length and quality of life. The seven steps are discussed as separate chapters: Exercise, Weight, Health Evaluation, Non-prescription Agents, A Medical Approach, A Surgical Approach and Preventive-Preventive Care. Doctors have learned that the chronic diseases associated with aging usually do not start in older age, but often are present by middle age and younger. Then, changes in lifestyle and early treatment to control the known risk factors and underlying disorders are most effective in extending both the length and quality of life. This book will provide pertinent medical information for the reader to embrace a golden challenge of preventive care to know and to fully enjoy the rewarding golden years ahead.
Download or read book Taking the E Ride Through the Golden Years written by Mary Lou Parks and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the "E" Ride through the Golden Years, explores the past, present and future of retirement and how those of us already on our rides, and especially the Boomers, may be affected by the current financial and health care crisis. The author explains how we got to a place where people expected to retire and sail off on their "E" ticket ride, having the time of their lives, to the present when we wonder if retirement will even be possible for most of the Boomers. Along the way we take the rollercoaster of aging and receive suggestions on how to live our older lives to the fullest. We also learn about ways to cope when things aren't so "Golden," if we should have trouble staying on our ride. This is Mary Lou Parks' second book. As a Registered Nurse and Gerontologist she continues to be involved with health and social services that affect the elderly, working a little, volunteering some time and writing about the issues that she encounters. In addition Mary Lou and her husband Tom enjoy traveling when they can, seeing the sights, visiting children and grandchildren, family and friends. Living in Lompoc California, she and her husband have four children and ten grandchildren, most of them living nearby.
Download or read book Out of Practice written by Frederick M. Barken and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary care medicine, as we know and remember it, is in crisis. While policymakers, government administrators, and the health insurance industry pay lip service to the personal relationship between physician and patient, dissatisfaction and disaffection run rampant among primary care doctors, and medical students steer clear in order to pursue more lucrative specialties. Patients feel helpless, well aware that they are losing a valued close connection as health care steadily becomes more transactional than relational. The thin-margin efficiency, rapid pace, and high volume demanded by the new health care economics do not work for primary care, an inherently slower, more personal, and uniquely tailored service. In Out of Practice, Dr. Frederick Barken juxtaposes his personal experience with the latest research on the transformations in the medical field. He offers a cool critique of the "market model of medicine" while vividly illustrating how the seemingly inexorable trend toward specialization in the last few decades has shifted emphasis away from what was once the foundation of medical practice. Dr. Barken addresses the complexities of modern practice—overuse of diagnostic studies, fragmentation of care, increasing reliance on an array of prescription drugs, and the practice of defensive medicine. He shows how changes in medicine, the family, and society have left physicians to deal with a wide range of geriatric issues, from limited mobility to dementia, that are not addressed by health care policy and are not entirely amenable to a physician’s prescription. Indeed, Dr. Barken contends, the very survival of primary care is in jeopardy at a time when its practitioners are needed more than ever. Illustrated with case studies gleaned from more than twenty years in private practice and data from a wide range of sources, Out of Practice is more than a jeremiad about a broken system. Throughout, Dr. Barken offers cogent suggestions for policymakers and practitioners alike, making clear that as valuable as the latest drug or medical device may be, a successful health care system depends just as much on the doctor-patient relationship embodied by primary care medicine.
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Download or read book The Big Shift written by Marc Freedman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Freedman, hailed by theNew York Timesas "the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life," makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are -- an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years. In The Big Shift, Freedman bemoans the fact that the discussion about longer lives in America has been entirely about the staggering economic costs of a dramatically aging society when, in reality, most of the nation's 78 million boomers are not getting old -- at least not yet. The whole 60- to 80-year-old period is simply new territory, he writes, and the people in this period constitute a whole new phenomenon in the 21st century. The Big Shiftis animated by a simple premise: that the challenge of transitioning to and making the most of this new stage -- while deeply personal -- is much more than an individual problem; it's an urgent social imperative, one affecting all generations. By embracing this time as a unique period of life -- and providing guidance, training, education and support to the millions who are in it -- Freedman says that we can make a monument out of what so many think of as the leftover years. The result could be a windfall of talent that will carry us toward a new generation of solutions for growing problems in areas like education, the environment, and health care.
Download or read book Aging written by Harry R. Moody and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting current research in an innovative format, Harry Moody and Jennifer Sasser’s Aging: Concepts and Controversies encourages students to become involved and take an informed stand on the major aging issues that we face as a society. Using their extensive expertise, the authors provide a thorough explanation of the issues in the Concepts sections and current research in the Controversy sections, demonstrating the close links between concepts and controversies in these broad areas of aging: health care, socioeconomic trends, and the life course.
