Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"
Net radio station targets baby boomers
The Age
January 18, 2007
Overview: Radioboomer.com.au, a new baby-boomer oriented online radio station, is set to launch on Friday and will “offer shows on wealth creation, retirement planning and new enterprise for mature age businesses.”
Danger zone: Aging Baby Boomers are discovering the benefits of senior-proofing. It's tough getting old, Gale Beeby discovers.
Gale Beeby
The Star
January 18, 2007
Overview: Beeby reports that baby boomers are starting to “senior proof” their homes. “It's a trend many retailers have taken notice of and are now offering gadgets and gizmos that help make homes safer and easier to navigate on arthritic knees and other aging ailments.”
http://www.thestar.com/Athome/article/171672
Thanks for my vacation future; Let them own it, I can rent it while we rent
Ian Karleff
Financial Post
January 13, 2007
Overview: According to Karleff, “Baby Boomers are building their retirement paradises on every available stretch of waterfront, and at the moment, with all the dust and debris, paradise looks pretty ugly.” Karleff goes on to write, “As hard as I try to find fault in this Boomer building frenzy, I find myself loving what this massive group is constructing: my vacation future.”
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/archives/story.html?id=149005fa-7ca4-4aa4-8dc2-ada0c6c94588
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Reframing and Signaling: Communicating Tough Choices to Aging Parents
David Solie
Gbod.org
Overview: Solie writes about communicating touch choices to aging parents and presents three communication strategies to help ensure survival of those touch choices. Solie suggests that the children of aging parents should, “use their developmental agenda to reframe their choices, reinforce the reframing with stories and look for "legacy moments" amid the upheaval.”
http://www.gbod.org/coa/articles.asp?act=reader&item_id=19198