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Youngest Baby Boomers Hit 40 This Year
www.countypressonline.com ^

Posted on 06/25/2004 5:43:22 AM PDT by Tribune7

The tail end of the baby boomer generation is turning 40 this year, which is an occasion for both celebration and apprehension, says the Pennsylvania Medical Society.

And while the cause for celebration may be obvious, the reason for apprehension may be less clear.

As middle-agers can attest, people in their early 40s begin to notice subtle-and sometimes not so subtle-changes in health like heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, hearing loss, vision problems, arthritis, and osteoporosis.

And, they have plenty of company. Approximately 78 million Americans-about 28 percent of the U.S. population-are baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964. Over the next 25 years, they're expected to double, then triple, and ultimately, quadruple the 60-80 age group.

(Excerpt) Read more at zwire.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: babyboomers; happybirthday
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To: Mo1

Yes, that counts...


61 posted on 06/25/2004 8:32:31 AM PDT by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa (Foe Hammer!)
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To: Tribune7
It's funny but I'd prefer to be labled a Gen -Xer than a Boomer.

Oh, so would she; that's why it nettles her so.

62 posted on 06/25/2004 8:47:13 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Tribune7

Is this why programs as "The Extreme Makeover" have such a success ??

The promise of ETERNAL YOUTH......


63 posted on 06/25/2004 8:52:10 AM PDT by traumer
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To: AIC

It's like the Gen X discussion. The media groups many of us into the Gen X category that were born about 5-10 years too late. Why do we need labels now, anyhow? Or was this started with the Boomers to promote the generation gap? :-P


64 posted on 06/25/2004 8:57:33 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: babble-on

It's only humiliating if you can remember the real name of the actor who played "Skippy from Family Ties". Phew! I don't fit in that category.


65 posted on 06/25/2004 8:59:24 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: Betty Jane
I was born in '57, and I don't buy this Generation Jones stuff. A generation is 20 years. Of course there are differences in those born at the start and this on the end, just as there was between my brother born in 1950 and myself. I am a boomer, and nobody's gonna call me a Jones!
66 posted on 06/25/2004 9:39:09 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Tribune7
baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964

That leaves me out.

67 posted on 06/25/2004 9:42:03 AM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: Tribune7
Last I checked, my wife and I are (at 41) supposed to be part of this whole "generation X" thing; after all, both sets of our parents are boomers...

I never completely understood that thing to begin with....

68 posted on 06/25/2004 9:43:45 AM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking

All four of your parents were 17 or younger? They'd have to be to be boomers if you and your wife are 41.


69 posted on 06/25/2004 9:50:42 AM PDT by wtc911 (moderate islam is the swamp where evil festers)
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To: wtc911
Not quite as young as 17; but all four of 'em were pretty young when we were born...

What's the cut off on their end? 1941? 1942? My mom's the youngest of the four of 'em - she was born in 41, the other three were within a year or so of each other not long before that...

70 posted on 06/25/2004 9:57:27 AM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking
Boomers start with the end of the war and the return of the troops, 1946.

An interesting side issue, most returning Vets were in their mid-late 20s (my dad was 24). They took a bit of time to adjust then went to college, making them late 20s before looking to marry. Most of them married women 5-8 years younger than they were (this was the rule when I was growing up, everybody's mom was 7 years younger than their dad). This left a demographic of women who were 15-20 when the war started, didn't marry during the war and then found themselves "too old" when the Vets went hunting. This resulted in a lot of my friends having "spinster aunts" who were their moms' older sisters.

71 posted on 06/25/2004 10:16:00 AM PDT by wtc911 (moderate islam is the swamp where evil festers)
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To: wtc911

I've heard Boomers sometimes described as those being born during the war -- i.e starting w/ 1939. This kind of makes sense as we think of those 16 year olds who went nuts over Elvis as being Boomers.


72 posted on 06/25/2004 11:01:08 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
I was born in 1960. I never thought of myself as a boomer either.

Me neither (1960). Folks born between 1959 and 1966 are wedged between two of the most narcissistic generations in history - the Boomers and Gen X. So just call us wedgies.

73 posted on 06/25/2004 11:04:17 AM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
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To: Tribune7

The very phrase "boomer" comes from the noticible explosion of births, the "baby boom" that can be seen post 1945. What would we call the 14-16 year olds who went ga-ga over Sinatra?


74 posted on 06/25/2004 11:10:45 AM PDT by wtc911 (moderate islam is the swamp where evil festers)
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To: wtc911
Some describe the "Boom Generation" as being between 1943 and 1960 based on common peer personality rather than birth rate. I kind of go along with that. OTOH, the most common description is as you described.

What would we call the 14-16 year olds who went ga-ga over Sinatra?

That would have been in the mid-40s which would have meant they were born around 1930.

75 posted on 06/25/2004 11:37:07 AM PDT by Tribune7
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