Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Baby Boomers Make Plans for Retirement
Priscilla Huff
www.voanews.com
Overview: “The United States is well-known for its youth-obsessed culture, but in reality there is a huge generation of so-called baby boomers -- Americans born after World War Two. They number some 80 million people and they are beginning to retire and re-define how U.S. citizens grow old. What many want to do is to live at home, age-in-place, and that is prompting the development of innovative problems to help them. Priscilla Huff takes a look at one such program in Washington, D.C.”
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-02-voa69.cfm
Boomers Increase Need for Nurses
Val J. Halamandaris
www.theledger.com
Overview: “In 2006, the first wave of the baby boom generation turned 60. In the very near future, this, the largest generation in history - all 77 million of them - will come into their retirement years. In doing so, they will transform every aspect of American society.”
http://www.theledger.com/article/20071003/COLUMNISTS03/710030409/1023
Younger MDs Reject Boomers' Workaholism
Sarah Boesveld
The Ottawa Citizen
Overview: “Baby-boomer doctors are working too many hours and are burning out hard and fast, according to an Ottawa psychiatrist.”