Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"
Boomers put sex on the table
Sarah Elks
The Australian
April 16, 2007
Overview: Elks reports that “baby boomers are shattering stereotypes by having more sex in their 60s than previous older generations.” Additionally, Elks shares thoughts from an Australian sexual health physician, Lesley Yee, who states, “This generation grew up with the pill and are used to more open communication about sex.” She goes on to say, “Now, they're challenging earlier conservative attitudes about older people's sexuality.”
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21563163-2702,00.html
Some boomers don't trust Internet banking
Lori Holcomb
The Battle Creek Enquirer
April 16, 2007
Overview: This article focuses on boomers and internet banking. Holcomb reports, “While their children and grandchildren may be comfortable doing this from the time they can reach a keyboard, studies show baby boomers are not as eager to put their money where their mouse is.” Moreover, “A 2006 study of Internet use by Pew Internet and American Life Project shows 66 percent of baby boomers are going online. However, like Wolf, many rarely use the Internet for banking, aside from tracking their accounts and paying a few bills.”
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070416/NEWS01/704160329/1002/NEWS01
What does ‘old’ mean?
Bryan Appleyard
The Sunday Times
April 15, 2007
Overview: Appleyard reflects on boomers and aging. “Baby-boomers are the most privileged demographic cohort in history, and the deluge of material rewards they enjoyed convinced them, sometime in the 1970s, that they could do something about death - even that it might be optional. From Jane Fonda workout videos to Nivea DNAge, and now the film Wild Hogs, in which suburban boomers take to the highway on motorbikes, the boomers have sought the fountain of youth with increasingly desperate enthusiasm.” Moreover, he suggests that the baby boomers’ “primary tactic, however, was not exercise, face cream or leather gear. It was denial. As the boomers aged and took over the commanding heights of the arts and media, they became ever more obsessed with youth.”
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article1641999.ece