Millennials getting raises have retiring baby boomers to thank
Retiring baby boomers and massive government aid in response to the COVID-19 pandemic may help explain the rising incomes and workers quitting in huge numbers.
Camping becoming more popular in Japan as options, including 'glamping,' increase
With various new camping options available, camping is regaining popularity in Japan after a mid-1990s boom led by the country's first baby boomers, who were born in the late 1940s. The new options include "glamping," or glamorous camping, which offers luxury tent stays without the ...
Exoskeleton suit mimics life's creaks, weaknesses at 85 to boost awareness
With the push of a button, a perfectly healthy 34-year-old museum-goer named Ugo Dumont was transformed into a confused 85-year-old man with cataracts, glaucoma and a ringing in his ears known as tinnitus. Dumont had volunteered at Liberty Science Center on Tuesday to don a ...
Twisted spending priorities of a graying nation
All Americans ought to want effective and efficient government, but government is being strangled as the rising costs of baby-boomer retirees reduce the capacity of other programs to fulfill their missions.
Baby boomers becoming gray gang
As the last of Japan's baby boomers turn 65 this year and retire, many are taking low-paid or voluntary work to get them out of the house — a trend that could have broad-reaching effects. The transition came later than expected as many workers from ...
Senior theater troupes increasing as baby boomers seek new roles
Japan is seeing an increasing number of theater companies made up of elderly actors as baby boomers and other seniors seek to tread the boards. In late May, a dozen members of an amateur troupe consisting of around 40 people aged 60 or older were ...
Children of the 1960s will pay a higher price
To some, it must have been a very long time coming but here it is at last. That smug, gold-plated, bloated slice of the population, whose main preoccupation appears to be, on the one hand, continually bragging about their unique birthright of rock 'n' ...
55% of male baby boomers expect wives to serve as caregivers: survey
More than half of male baby boomers born in the late 1940s hope their wives will act as caregivers if required, according to a government survey. In contrast, only a quarter of their female counterparts hope their husbands will act as caregivers, according to the ...
