Top News From Today's "Boomiverse"
How Safe Are Our Roads?
Marilyn Geewax
National Public Radio
November 22, 2009
Overview: A new series investigates road safety, covering a variety of relevant topics including the potential impact of aging baby boomers. On Nov. 24, NPR will air a story by All Things Considered host Robert Siegel who travels to Florida to investigate special initiatives the state is taking to reduce highway accidents, “including an older-driver program and an anonymous tip line to alert police to potentially dangerous senior drivers.”
http://tinyurl.com/yc68cjz
Exhibits trace decades-old fashion, fabric trends
Deborah K. Dietsch
Washington Times
November 22, 2009
Overview: “Clothing the Rebellious Soul" at George Washington University's Luther W. Brady Art Gallery is a nostalgic look at counterculture fashions of the 1960s and early 1970s. … Organized by vintage clothiers Nancy Gewirz and Mark Hooper, the exhibit takes baby boomers on a groovy trip down memory lane.”
http://tinyurl.com/y8p3e2n
Baby boomers find growing acceptance of marijuana use
Steve Hendrix
Washington Post
November 22, 2009
Overview: “Smoking pot isn’t what it used to be for Joe Lee, 62, a vintage-record dealer in suburban Rockville, Md. In the late 1960s, as an art student in Baltimore, he kept his landlord in a constant state of suspicion, with clouds of marijuana smoke poorly masked by clouds of incense.”
http://tinyurl.com/y8ggu32
Doctors Debate: Should City Aid Growth in Palliative Care?
Anemona Hartocollis
New York Times City Room Blog
November 20, 2009
Overview: “Just how far should medicine go in turning death and dying into a growth industry? Two New York City doctors, the head of the city’s largest public hospital and a nationally known geriatrician, gently clashed on that topic Thursday at a City Council hearing to discuss how to deal with the demand for end-of-life care as the baby boomer generation ages.”
http://tinyurl.com/ya9n7ce