Posted on 08/26/2013 8:34:06 AM PDT by upbeat5
Americans should expect an enormous shortage in caregivers for older people in the coming decades, with a dearth of friends and family members available to care for the baby-boom generation as it ages, according to a report released Monday by AARP.
The report, “The Aging of the Baby Boom and the Growing Care Gap,” projects that by 2030 there will be only four potential caregivers available for each person 80 or older, down from a high of more than seven in 2010. By 2050, when boomers are between 86 and 104, the ratio will drop below 3 to 1. Currently, about 14 percent of potential caregivers — defined as people 45 to 64 — provide care for someone 80 or older, 9 percent care for someone 60 to 79, and 7 percent care for someone 18 to 59, said Ari Houser, one of the authors.
The “2030 problem,” as researchers have defined it, stems from a combination of factors, including the large number of baby boomers, the fact that boomers had relatively fewer children than earlier generations, and increased longevity for both men and women.
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What a weird way of measuring—”potential caregivers” are the general population aged 45 to 64?
This baby boomer did not promote the abortion of children and neither did any of my baby boomer friends. Be careful of generalizations.
Abortion didn’t come from boomers, the first presidential election that all boomers could vote in was 1984.
Boomers weren’t running anything, not the state governments and Governors that legalized abortion in the 1960s, or the Supreme Court, or NOW, or anything else.
We have a pretty strong family...and extended family. Who knows, the way things are going, we may all be living under the same roof anyway. That used to be quite common, multi-generations under one roof. Can’t be all bad.
In my parent’s area, down in Florida, there are a lot of caregivers from Haiti, Trinidad, etc. I call them “Island Ladies”. And the ones I have come in contact within the healthcare and nursing care systems were the most kind, caring people I have ever met. There is such a respectful and caring quality of older people that I have witnessed first hand...with parents in the hospital down in Florida and with my mother at the nursing home here in Pennsylvania.
“I am sure many wish they would have had more kids. Makes me sad.”
It’s a problem that neither of us will need to worry about!
The Obamacare Death Panels will assure most of them won't need long term care. It will mostly consist of short term care and perhaps morphine (if you're lucky and vote the "right" way).
“...defined as people 45 to 64...”
So, I can stop taking care of my (87 y/o) Mom when I hit 64?
translation: you’ve aborted the people who would have changed your Depends.
The first boomers were born in 1946 and could vote in 1964 (Lyndon B Johnson VS Barry Goldwater) They certainly were a big factor in the election of John F Kennedy.
Abortion was legalized in 1973 it was baby boomers that were demanding the right to kill their children.
(Roe Vs Wade - Jane Roe - Norma Leah McCorvey born September 22, 1947 -BTW she was a lesbian too - she was a baby boomer)
These five wonderful boomers have done more damage to our country than anyone before them
Bill Clinton , Hillery Clinton , Al Gore ,Malcolm X, Barack Obama
Are you nuts?
Boomers a big factor in the 1960 JFK race? Boomers voting in the 1964 presidential election? Boomers making the Supreme Court decision of 1973?
Malcolm X born in 1925 was a boomer?
Boomers had nothing to do with legalizing abortion, it was legal in many states before Roe v Wade, and then the Supreme court ruled in 1973, by the way, that was just after the 18 to 29 year old vote had gone for Nixon in 1972.
Don’t worry. Obozo has an answer—death panels.
Oops Malcom X was not a boomer
They didn’t make the decisions , they were the counter culture that pushed those decisions.(the greatest generation was not so great themselves)
The decisions they made to kill so many of their children obviously had an effect on the population because Gen X is a tiny generation.
Tiny generation to care for a big generation that didn’t have many children is why we are going to have a problem caring for the boomers.(hence why I said in my original post that the generation that wanted abortion is going to be aborted themselves - why do you think they want those death panels ? It’s pretty simple if you do the math there is no way a tiny generation can make up all those promised payments and it just gets worse down the line as you because the younger generations believe they came from monkeys , baby’s are blobs of tissue and old people cramp their style )
What a crock, you need to learn some history.
Children were not driving the Senate, the Presidents, the state legislators, the Governors, the Congress, the Supreme court, national organizations like NOW and the ACLU.
The first presidential election in which all boomers were old enough to even vote in wasn’t until 1984, boomers had nothing to do with creating and legalizing abortion in America, if anything, the mass pro-life movement and push against abortion and the “greatest generation” came from the boomers.
If you really care about abortion, then you have to learn where it came from, who gave it to America, telling us that it was children and teens creating American law is insane.
Just as insane as your claims of boomers and the 1960 and 1964 presidential elections, do you even know which generation Malcolm X and Jane Fonda, and the Beatles, and William Ayers, and Nancy Pelosi, and Bob Dylan are from, as you skip from the left’s “greatest generation” to the “baby boomers”?
Do you think 18 year olds help elect Obama ?
Of course they did
Don’t tell me that boomers didn’t vote until every last one of them were of age .
The under 30 vote didn’t become dedicated to the democrat party, until the boomers had left it.
The very first boomers (ages 21 and 22) voted in 1968, that year the under 30 vote gave democrats 47%, by 1972 boomers filled most of the 18-29 pool and democrats got 46% of that vote, in 1976 democrats got 51% (the 18-29 were all boomers), and in 1980 they got 44% (again, all boomers), and in 1984 democrats won 40% of the (almost all boomer) 18-29 year old vote, in 1988 it was 47% for democrats (almost half boomers), by 1992 the boomers had left the 18-29 year old demographic except for the single years worth of 29 year olds, that signalled the end of the young being conservative.
In 1992, without the boomers (except for the 29 year olds)the 18-29 year old vote went 34% Republican, in 1996 with zero boomers, they went 34% Republican, 2000 46% Republican, 2004 47% Republican, and in 2008, their worst year ever, 32% Republican.
You are not taking into account the massive amounts of immigrants that were naturalized by the stadium fulls all over the place that changed demographics .
They passed laws that you no longer had to take the long complicated test that actually required you to learn some of the countries history and how government worked. Not to mention they also changed the requirement that you didn’t even have to take the crummy test they did give in English.
Boom ! Instant Democrats
The first boomers were born in 1946 and could vote in 1964 (Lyndon B Johnson VS Barry Goldwater)...
Wrong! The 26th Amendment to the Constitution wasn’t adopted until 1971. In 1964 the youngest voters were born in 1943. The youngest voters for JFK were born in 1939. All pre-boomer.
Your credibility would be enhanced if you got your facts down before posting.
Sadly, the old FR, she ain't what she used to be....
Wow, a whole new subject, I guess you gave up on trying to sell us on boomers voting in the 1960 and 1964 elections.
I guess that is why you couldn’t answer post 53.
“Do you even know which generation Malcolm X and Jane Fonda, and the Beatles, and William Ayers, and Nancy Pelosi, and Bob Dylan are from, as you skip from the left’s “greatest generation” to the “baby boomers”?”
sad, but all too true :(
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