Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"
Becoming 'parent of your parent' an emotionally wrenching process
Mindy Fetterman
USA Today
June 25, 2007
Overview: Fetterman discusses the growing number of boomers caring for their elderly relatives and the financial and emotional up and downs that goes along with it. She reports, “It's estimated that 34 million Americans serve as unpaid caregivers for other adults, usually elderly relatives, and that they spend an average 21 hours a week helping out, according to a study being released today by AARP.”
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/eldercare/2007-06-24-elder-care-cover_N.htm
Achy baby boomers aren't aging gracefully
Tom Kisken
Scripps Howard News Service
June 25, 2007
Overview: Kisken reports that as boomers near retirement, their health may be deteriorating. He writes that boomers “said they hurt more, drink more, suffer more depression and experience more chronic health conditions than people born just before and during World War II.”
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/24616
Vintage car can turn into gold when boomers revive their old dreams of possession
Seniorscopie.com
June 26, 2007
Overview: This piece focuses on the article "Car Collecting is Burning Rubber" published in BusinessWeek on May 6, 2007. “Thanks to wealthy baby boomers trying to regain a piece of their long-lost youth‚ inspirational cars are selling for increasingly high sums.”
http://www.seniorscopie.com/actu/article.asp?id=070626192407&rub=swi