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Newsletters Donate My Account. Another 58 percent plan to continue working at least part-time while "retired" for health insurance coverage.
That plan doesn't always work out, particularly if boomers experience health problems as they age. As the GAO noted, long-term unemployment can sap retirement savings pretty easily. Then there's the drama that comes from multiple generations living under one roof.
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The difference between the way boomers respond to turning 65 and the way their parents dealt with the same watershed moment is startling. Boomers aren't smoking themselves into an early grave the way their parents did. They take more and stranger vitamins than their parents. They jog. They power walk. They play tennis and racquetball and even basketball well into their 60s, whereas their parents threw in the towel on exercise shortly after the Marines took Iwo Jima. Boomers believe that it is never too late to change careers , to change appearances, to change physiques, to change economic classes, to change hair colors.
Boomers sincerely believe that it is never too late to reinvent one's personality. Or to learn Dutch. Or to start rock climbing. There are two profound differences between retirement-age boomers and their parents at the same age.
Well, three, if you include eating a lot more hummus. In fact, five, if you add in that our parents never attended writing workshops to learn how to "journal. You're only as old as you feel, the saying goes, and boomers still feel When they're 90, they'll still feel No matter how old they get, and no matter how harshly Father Time works his cruel magic, boomers will always act like it is still the day the Stones released "Jumpin' Jack Flash.
The second profound generational difference is that boomers are better prepared psychologically to do what they want in their golden years. Previous generations of Americans only went to Tuscany to fight Germans. Boomers go there to see if the osso buco can possibly live up to the rave reviews they have heard. Boomers, who grew up backpacking across Morocco, are also better prepared to deal with the rigors of travel at an advanced age.
It helps that knee-replacement technology has advanced so much in recent years; a generation ago, when your hips and knees went, you were down for the count. Today you get yourself a new set of knees and walk straight up the Eiffel Tower.
Here are some other major differences between year-olds then and year-olds now. Today's retirees are more likely to be vegetarians. They are more likely to visit Macchu Pichu.
They are more likely to eat raw garlic.
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