Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"
Generation Jones is in play
Clarence Page
Chicago Tribune
October 22, 2008
Overview: “Obama and Palin are late Boomers, the Overlooked Generation. Or, as Los Angeles-based cultural historian Jonathan Pontell calls them, ‘Generation Jones.’ Pontell, who published a book with that title a few years ago, argues that Generation Jones doesn't get the attention it deserves.”
Aging Baby Boomers Are Pushing Health Plans to Design New Products, Retool Existing Ones
Mike Carbine
Health Plan Week
October 22, 2008
Overview: “A rapidly aging population, with its accompanying explosion in chronic conditions, has health plans moving quickly to create new products and tweak many of their existing ones to meet the special financial and health needs of baby boomers and retirees.”