Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Boomers add new wrinkle to growing old
Jane Glenn Haas
Boston Herald
May 1, 2008
Overview: “The pundits, academics, experts, professionals and hangers-on of the aging network have gathered in the nation’s capital to find answers to the future’s most pressing problem: What to do with so many old people who already bleed services dry? And there is no respite, for just ahead is the tsunami of the old as boomers cross the threshold from middle age to elderhood. A hand-wringing future at best. But this year, there’s another question on the table: What is elderhood anyway?”
http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/lifestyle/view.bg?articleid=1090794
Not 'seniors': New magazine for lively boomers
Lisa Provence
ReadTheHook.com
May 1, 2008
Overview: “The man who brought Charlottesville a glossy shelter magazine last year has targeted another market: aging baby boomers-- although publisher Eric Lund avoids such words as ‘aging’ or ‘senior’ in The Next50, ‘Central Virginia's Lifestyle Magazine for the 50+ Generation.’"
http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/05/01/NEWS-next50-C.aspx
Baby Boomers Lead U.S. Obesity Problem, Diabetes Increase
Market-Day.net
Apr. 30, 2008
Overview: “Overweight and obese ‘baby boomers’ are entering their senior years with weight-related problems that are plaguing their ‘golden years’ with problems, increasing the need for nursing homes and medical care.”