Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"
Who will care for the baby boomers? As generation nears retirement, concern mounts over elderly care
Associated Press via MSNBC.com
June 15, 2007
Overview: AP reports, “Alarm is spreading across the health care sector in the face of stark demographics. There will be an enormous increase in America’s elderly population in the next few decades, while the traditional labor pool for caregivers — women from their mid-20s to mid-50s — will scarcely grow at all, compounding problems for a work force already beset by low wages and high turnover.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19234042/
Nutraceutical market ripe for baby boomer products
Clarisse Douaud
NutraIngredients-usa.com
June 14, 2007
Overview: Douaud discusses the trend in marketing functional food and dietary supplements to baby boomers because they are “increasingly worried about their health and take prevention of illness into their own hands.”
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=77394-mintel-culinary-tides-baby-boomers
Maturity Bites
Sally Swift
Daily Sally Blog
June 14, 2007
Overview: Swift reflects on her birthday and birthdays of fellow baby boomers. She writes, “Many of us are reaching milestones these days, but no matter what our age, Boomers are 'younger' than any preceding generation. Think of it this way: we're the first generation in history who will go to our graves in jeans.”
http://dailysally.blogspot.com/2007/06/maturity-bites.html