How Jitterbug designed a mobile phone and service to appeal to even the most technophobic seniors

Baby boomers have spent much of their lives on families and careers; now they are working on themselves. Many are squeezing creative writing classes and acting workshops into weekends and after-work hours previously spent chauffeuring children to soccer matches and piano lessons.

Powerful, less obvious digital devices help Baby Boomers recapture sounds they’re beginning to lose Say what? Having trouble getting the buzz at the party because there’s too much, er, buzz? Do those “s’s,” “f’s,” “t’s” and “th’s” sound too much alike?

Ram Realty Services can thank those babies of baby boomers for $4.5 million.

Baby boomers, who have been growing their nest eggs for decades, are now preparing to transition from accumulating assets to preserving and withdrawing them. By 2020, more than two-thirds of all investable assets will be controlled by households already in retirement, according to a McKinsey report.

Helping libraries and nonprofit groups meet the needs of baby boomers will be the focus of workshops Wednesday and Thursday at Northland Public Library, 300 Cumberland Road, McCandless.

Baby boomers may be besotted with being grandparents, but they’re not embossing “Grandma” or “Grandpa” on their T-shirts. The generation that redefined parenthood is looking for a cooler title than “Granny.”

With the oldest U.S. baby boomers staring down retirement, the financial industry is betting sales of annuities will take off.

Income stream can be With the oldest U.S. Baby Boomers staring down retirement, the financial industry is betting sales of annuities will take off.

By Jim Killackey, The Daily Oklahoman May 26–Oklahoma baby boomers can expect to live to age 89, but their life spans could be even longer and more enjoyable if they exercised more, smoked less, spent fewer hours at work and got more sleep.

A new study estimates that the total size of 401(k) plans will grow markedly, despite baby boomers? liquidation of retirement assets.

May 26, 2007 - As Baby Boomers move toward retirement, their massive influence on consumer spending is about to be eclipsed by the nation’s second largest generation - Echo Boomers.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The baby boom generation that has changed everything it touched is doing the same for death. Today’s aging boomers have obit news groups, obit websites, obit blogs and forums, even obit-writing classes so they can pen their own send-offs. There are obit books, obit writers’ conferences. And coming soon: the launch of Obit magazine, a publication that’s dead serious about …

Fox bagged its third straight crown in the key adults 18-49 demographic for the 2006-07 TV season, while CBS won for a fifth straight year in viewership.

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