People are concerned about future implications. Deborah Sullivan works among the front rank of sociologists studying the phenomenon. The Arizona State University researcher focuses her interest on how a change in demographic structure affects various societal issues. There is no doubt about that. Healthcare, family structure, and social services also will be seriously affected.
Numbers tell part of the story.
Baby boomers are defined as any of the more than 80 million Americans who were born between 1946 and 1964, including immigrants. As the best educated and healthiest older generation in the nation's history, this group is poised to rewrite the story of aging in America. They've changed the meaning of education, of marriage, and of work. There's every indication that they will change the ways in which we live out the last third of life. Boomers are likely to produce a sea of change in the cultural tastes of older Americans.