Baby Boomer's Notion of Aging, Retirement and Long-Term Care

Majority of baby boomers are seriously weighing retirement now, with more things to put into consideration and quite a number of expenses to anticipate. They are indeed setting a new trend and are redefining retirement based on current circumstances, instead of dreaming about life's luxuries and leisure, they are taking retirement one step at a time.

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Can't Determine Where to Retire? Don't Base Your Decision on "Best Places To Retire" List

As a number of baby boomers hit their retirement age, they have been focusing on savings, finances, health and long-term care cost and other issues facing retirement, with all these crisis associated with retirement, do they ever have the time to think about moving and looking for a perfect place to spend their golden years?

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Aging in the Workforce: Baby Boomer's Retirement Crisis

When it comes to baby boomers, retirement is a major issue, there are things that worried and terrified them, thus, a lot of boomers are planning to stay in the work force to build a bigger nest egg, and wants an extended time to accumulate more money.

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Heart Disease - A long-Term Care Illness Posing A threat to Baby Boomer Women

In our previous blog, we joined millions of Americans in observing World Cancer Day to help spread awareness, prevention and treatment for the disease, today, we may see a lot of social media post about women wearing red dress with the hashtag #GoRedForWomen. Ever wondered why those women are all wearing red? Because its National Wear Red Day, which symbolizes the observation of heart disease awareness.

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Planning for Retirement: Security for Baby Booomers

Working in the golden years have proved that baby boomer's attitude towards retirement has dramatically changed. A lot of people who are 55 years old and above are still active in the workforce and some are still looking for career opportunity despite their old age.

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Cancer Crisis: A Burden for Aging Baby Boomers

Today is World Cancer Day, a lot of people are joining hands to help spread awareness about this chronic illness and encourage the prevention, detection and cure to the disease. Considered as the second  most common or leading cause of death, this disease may require a patient to be on long-term care services, around 8% of claimants are affected with this illness. Cancer can affect people from all walks of life, regardless if you're wealthy or poor, young or old, however, the most significant risk factor of cancer is age. This being said, seniors and boomers have higher risk of developing the disease.

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Baby Boomer's Health is Wealth

"Health is wealth", this is an old saying but holds true especially for aging baby boomers. The burden of health and long-term care cost are being shouldered by majority of our aging population since they are prone to be care recipients due to the effects brought about by aging.