Tag: baby boomers
Here’s just some of the evidence of the enormity of the challenge of caring for our elderly parents: One in three baby boomer women cares for an elderly parent. Even if they work, these caregivers devote anywhere from eight to 30 hours per week to that parent. The estimated value of informal senior care provided…
Wives like to retire around the same time as their older husbands – so they can play. But what a difference the baby boom generation has made. For boomer wives, as members of the first generation of women to enter the U.S. labor force en masse, there can be a steep cost to leaving t…
