boomers

A majority of baby boomers say they have taken a financial hit in the past three years and most now doubt that they will be financially secure after they retire, according to a new poll. So much for kicking back at the lake house, long afternoons of golf or pretty much anything this generation had dreamed about in retirement.

The dawning of 2011 marks a milestone: The first of the nation's 76 million baby boomers turn 65, the traditional retirement age. New polls, however, show that for a range of reasons few boomers of this age are ready to retire. In fact, some don't ever expect to stop working.

Yesterday, I heard gerontologist Ken Dychtwald talk about relying on family to take care of you when you're old. He was reporting on a survey for long-term care insurer Genworth, confirming what I would have guessed -- most people would rather die than be dependent on a family member to wipe their...

Everywhere I look, I see another news story bemoaning delays in retirement plans for Boomers. Most of them feature some poor schmo who says he's going to be working until they haul him off the job toes up. It's hard for me to be too sympathetic. Part of the reason is that I'm a woman. I spend a...

A recent University of Utah study projects that homeownership rates, which have declined slightly since their 2004 peak, will drop to 1980's levels within the next year. The study's authors attribute this to increasing numbers of immigrants, the subprime mortgage crisis, smaller households, and a...

If you're age 60 or over and daunted by the prospect of having to work again, or just as bad, the idea of putting off retiring indefinitely, then a new movie might provide a little goose.The documentary Gotta Dance chronicles the first season of the NETSationals, New Jersey Nets' cheerleading team....

The recession has more high school seniors looking at community colleges as an affordable alternative to four-year programs, but as older Americans face a changing job market, they're also looking to these under-appreciated institutions as an opportunity to improve their skills.'Even the Wall...

Did you know that the United States is in the beginning stages of a major brain drain? Baby boomers are starting to retire, and along with them goes a whole lot of knowledge. Experts predict that we're going to have a serious talent shortage very soon because of the retirement of so many...

A few years back, my buddy Chris taught me about bluegrass music. Because we lived in southwest Virginia, it was easy to go to bluegrass concerts and festivals, and it seemed like half the bars in my area hosted a bluegrass night with live music. In 2000 and 2001, one of the themes of my education...

For some people, the world is divided racially or economically, along gender lines or by political borders. For me, the big divider, at least in the United States, has always been generational. I was born in 1971, smack in the middle of what would later be called Generation X. I was part of dropoff...