What years are baby boomers? Here's how old this generation is in 2023. By Claire Mulroy, USA Today, March 1, 2023

Helpful info about Baby Boomers—and the Baby Boom cohort.

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Boomers and Millenials: Boomers seem to have traded in the child-raising village for traveling. Now millennial parents say they have no one to support them. A report from Business Insider, December 7, 2023.

Millennials have put off having children, so boomers are the oldest grandparents ever. At the same time, boomers are outspending other generations on travel and dining out. Many millennial parents say they can't get the support they need from their parents.

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The Life Span of Loneliness, a video and article from The New York Times, was inspired by Vivek Murthy’s essay on this topic earlier in 2023. Loneliness is a public health emergency—for those who are aging and for everyone else. We have seen in research that isolation is one of the major fears people have as they age.

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Growing much older is Canada’s new reality, and a non-reversable trend. Let’s embrace it, rebrand what it means to age, and recognize aging as the privilege that it truly is.

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Gen Z is soft, millennials are embarrassing, boomers are evil, and no one has thought about Gen X in years. But while generational framings are ubiquitous, just how real are these fault lines?

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Modern Elder Academy hosted an online session entitled “The Power of Reinvention” on July 12, 2023, featuring Chip Conley and Joanne Lipman. They explored the skills and mindsets needed for reinvention, discussing how it can manifest in our lives and the transformative role of struggle. They also addressed midlife changes and Ms. Lipman’s four stages of the Reinvention Roadmap: search, struggle, stop, and solution. Joanne Lipman is the author of Next! The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work. Chip Conley is the founder of MEA. 

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The idea of a retirement purposely filled with work might seem dismal—proof that we’ve prioritized achievement over happiness for so long that we can’t even stop in our 60s. But there might be a less pessimistic way to look at those who actively choose semi-retirement. Read it here.

by MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press; May 25, 2023

The share of residents 65 or older grew by more than a third from 2010 to 2020 and at the fastest rate of any decade in 130 years, while the share of children declined, according to new figures from the most recent census… Combined, the trends mean the median age in the U.S. jumped from 37.2 to 38.8 over the decade.

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What could be more optimistic than dining with eight people you’ve never met in hopes of making a new friend?

…everyone had come for the same reason: to connect with strangers in real life and potentially make a new friend… A 2010 report in The Journal of Health and Social Behavior showed that low social connection is linked to poor health outcomes, including heart attacks and cancer, as well as other conditions. Lacking connection has also been found to be worse for your health than smoking, obesity or high blood pressure. As a predictor for a happy life, strong relationships are more reliable than such factors as wealth and I.Q.

The New York Times, March 11, 2023, by Setareh Baig

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… no two people age the same. Although age is the principal risk factor for several chronic diseases, it is an unreliable indicator of how quickly your body will decline or how susceptible you are to age-related disease. This is because there is a difference between your chronological age, or the number of years you’ve been alive, and your biological age – your physical and functional ability.

Published March 15, 2023 in The Conversation

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by Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell, March 22, 2023

The arrangement, once the norm for many American families, is making a comeback. Article includes tips for a successful multi-generational household.

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By Bobby Duffy

Pitting boomers against millennials is a distraction from the inequality that affects us all. An interesting take on inter-generational differences and tensions, an issue that often arises when deciding on investing in older adult programs. Read it here.