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In 1900, only four percent of the American population was sixty-five or older. By 2000, this number had more than tripled, and it is expected to nearly double again over the next fifty years. It is estimated that by the year 2050, more than one person out of five will be in the "senior" category. Although today’s elderly are living longer lives, sometimes this seeming fortune comes at a price which includes severe infirmities and diminished capacity. For adult children or others who may then have to step in and care for them in their twilight years, The Baby Boomer’s Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parent will be a companion on one of life’s most difficult but potentially rewarding journeys. This guide includes everything from practical information on the problems of dealing with the elderly to heartfelt advice on the importance of honest communication.
With expert insight and the empathy that only comes from experience, Gene and David Williams and Patie Kay guide families through this new caregiving terrain. The Baby Boomer’s Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parent is a must-have for anyone who is now or may soon be caring for an elderly loved one.
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This "inspiring, informative, mind-opening book" (New York Times) provides a new vision on aging, retirement, and the role of older Americans in the 21st century. Over the next three decades, the number of Americans over fifty will double, swelling to more than a quarter of the population. Already we are living thirty years longer than a century ago, with further gains expected in the coming years. The end result is a new stage of life, one as long or longer than childhood or middle age in duration, and one spent in unprecedented good health. Yet, as individuals, and as a society, we've shown little imagination or wisdom in using this great gift of a third age. Marc Freedman identifies the new longevity as not a problem to be solved, but an opportunity to be seized-provided we can engage the experience, talent, and idealism of older Americans. At a juncture when the middle-generation faces a time-famine, struggling to simultaneously raise kids and work long hours on the job, the older generation is awash in free time, poised to succeed women as the trustees of civic life in this country. In the process they stand to find new meaning and purpose in their lives, and abandon the limbo-like state unfulfilling for so many older individuals. Freedman argues that the aging phenomenon, the massive transformation that many portray as our downfall, may in fact be our best hope for renewal as a nation.
As one of the first post-WWII Baby Boomers, Jim Chambers' childhood and early teenage years were in the 1950s, a remarkable decade for the United States that saw enormous political, technological, and cultural changes. Although many books have covered the headline-making events of the era in great detail, few of these books give the reader a real feel for what daily life was like for Americans living in that decade, especially for kids growing up then. The author remembers the little nuts and bolts things of daily life for families during the fascinating decade known as the Fabulous Fifties. "Recollections" perfectly blends paying homage to the little day-to-day rituals with a larger scale examination of social issues and mores of the times, and it's equally entertaining on either level. "Recollections" is a warm, lovingly honest, and fascinating portrait of America in the mid-20th Century.
The kids of the 1960s are the collectors of today, and their toys are among the hottest items in the collecting world. 
Features 64 hits from the 1960s and '70s, TV songs, movie themes, and favorite tunes from the boomers' youth. Includes: American Pie * At Seventeen * Baby Love * Cherish * Come On Get Happy * Crying * If * Imagine * Light My Fire * Love Story * Mickey Mouse March * Theme from The Monkees * Moon River * My Cherie Amour * Rocky and Bullwinkle * Something * Stand by Me * To Sir, with Love * You're So Vain * more!
From the opening scene of this novel you realize that from the moment you meet Buck looking out of his bedroom window in his pajamas with an erection in June of 1961, until the closing scenes in June of 1965 on the day after high school graduation, that Buck and his friends have taken you into life in the 1960's. This novel captures the conversations; the cars; the sex; the romance; the football games; the dances; the nude streaking; the voyeur peeking; the corporal punishment in school; the skinny-dipping; the drinking; the parties; the pranks; the necking; the sand dunes; the car wrecks; the high school graduation; and the graduation party. The novel is about coming of age and the teenage rite of passage, with all its humor; gawkiness; pain; and complexity! At times you will roll with side-splitting laughter; at times you will cry; at times you will cheer! All the chronicles are intertwined with actual historical events of the time and the popular music of the period. Brown's "Will the Laughter Stop? THE BABY BOOMER CHRONICLES" will become a new kind of mantra for today's grandparents to tell other generations of Americans: "That's the way it was". The Author writes with a flair for description, and creates a viable setting in a Long Island, New York, Catholic High School, the kind every American city and town has, just around the corner. These characters' voices could have been anyone's in high school days, when they struggled to set boundaries; to develop ethical standards; to question the existence of God; to ponder their future; and the very existence of their life and goals. Readers of this book will ride along on the adventures, not knowing what the next day will bring, but always asking, "Who will star in the movie"?
The Baby Boomers have ruled the world for the last few decades and boy have they done a number on it! They were a generation that started out with so much promise but ended up jsut giving us a few funny TV shows and lots of little plates with scenes of Tuscany on them. The rest of the Boomers' fingerprint on the world is not pretty, but it is funny! Finley Harrison, a Gen-Xer and son of two Baby Boomers, takes a lighthearted approach to his critique of the most populous (and least popular) generation in the country and tackles the Boomers' selfishness, political correctness, addiction to pharmaceuticals, sense of entitlement, and disco. So, grab your sense of humor and find out why Baby Boomers suck!
There are managers who can't bear the thought of losing longtime, skilled employees due to the "brain drain," yet it is occurring as experienced Baby Boomers retire and take with them their practical knowledge and business acumen. Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Keeping this a low priority could lead to a great deal of deep, tacit knowledge walking out the door, maybe for good. Managers can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave. These steps are outlined in SURVIVING THE BABY BOOMER EXODUS. This book provides a practical guide for capturing valuable knowledge, skills, and experience so it can be shared among employees of all the generations in the workplace. It examines methods for assessing a company's knowledge gaps, creating a knowledge transfer plan, and nurturing a culture that encourages knowledge sharing and collaboration. Inside you'll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company's intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace.
BoomerPreneurs: How Baby Boomers Can Start Their Own Business, Make Money and Enjoy Life is both a book you will enjoy reading as well as your roadmap to a future as an entrepreneur. BoomerPreneurs guides you through the business start-up process and the challenges of starting a business at 50 or 60+ years of age rather than 25 or 35. It is a guide for Baby Boomers who are looking for life on their own terms after years in corporate America or for a way to make money and enjoy their retirement years--retirees, soon-to-be retirees, downsized workers, the unretired and those who always dreamed of owning their own business. In BoomerPreneurs you follow this 4-step process to business start-up: Step 1 What Should Baby Boomers Consider Before Starting a Business? Step 2 Recognize the Opportunity That's Right for You and the Marketplace Step 3 Refine Your Idea and Do Your Research Step 4 Determine Business Viability and Get Started. Along the way you'll receive tips from successful entrepreneurs, read the motivational stories of numerous entrepreneurs who started businesses at 50 plus years of age and work your way through checklists and action steps to develop your own success plan. BoomerPreneurs offers you the lessons you'd learn from a business start-up coach in a handy text format you can read, take notes in, and refer to repeatedly.