Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"
A Grandma or Grandpa by Any Other Name Is Just as Old
Ann Zimmerman
Wall Street Journal
January 23, 2009
Overview: “Aging baby boomers are in the midst of a grandbaby boom, and they're struggling with a bunch of issues. How to be attentive grandparents while having a busy career and, increasingly, caring for their own elderly parents? How to stay close to the tykes while living far away? But one of the most vexing issues they face is deciding what they want to be called by their grandchildren, lest it make them sound -- and feel -- old. It's another example of how baby boomers, whose anthem was Bob Dylan's ‘Forever Young,’ are not going gently into old age.”
Baby boomers get physical
Toby Sells
Memphis Business Journal
January 23, 2009
Overview: “Industry insiders aren’t eager to call physical therapy a ‘recession-proof’ business, but most agree that baby-boomer demand has so far kept it sheltered from the economic storm.”