We can’t blame them outright for the housing crisis but baby boomers play a role as supply blockers.
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Baby boomers have benefited from a golden age in pensions that that will almost certainly never return.
As the post-war generation retire, they’re keen to keep learning.
It’s become fashionable to blame those born in the post-war baby boom for all today’s economic woes. But this is unfair – and wrong.
Research shows baby booms are generally bad news for the economy – at least for the boom’s babies.
The first to have benefited from the NHS the longest, more marriages and long retirement – but more living with disability too.
The baby boomer generation has fixed the future.
The contrast between rights with dignity and rights without is increasingly apparent with regard to two groups of Australians: retirees and those in aged-care facilities.
Whether you are over-protective or more laissez-faire, the chances are that someone, somewhere will be criticising your parenting style.
Australians divide along generational lines when it comes to participating in politics. Less predictably, they are almost united on the need to fix the political system and the best ways to do that.
It doesn’t matter how old you are, you can still look fabulous. This message is sold to us by magazines, newspapers, the cosmetics industry, fashion labels and dating agencies. Think of the recent movie…
Older people, and particularly older women, are often thought of as being asexual or sexually undesirable. Although the particular age this is believed to happen varies somewhat in the popular imagination…
A medical colleague was shaking his head in disgust. “What is wrong with these medical students today?” he asked. “They just don’t have the same work ethic they used to. In our day, we didn’t have to be…
The problem with Australia’s population ageing is not that there are too many older people – it’s that there are not enough young people to support them. That presents many challenges to Australia’s continued…
Research tells us that women’s sexual functioning declines after midlife, manifested by reductions in arousal and orgasm, and increases in sexual pain. This is linked to reports of reduced sexual activity…
New research shows Generation X will overtake Baby Boomers for poor health if current trends, including rates of obesity…
Travelling baby boomers, grey nomads and younger, adventure-seeking families are driving a rapid resurgence in caravan registrations at a time when traditional caravan park spots are in consistent decline…
They’re calling it the great “senior sell off” and it’s scaring suburban America. Still recovering from the housing market crisis of 2007-09, America’s latest concern is a looming glut of unsellable suburban…
Generational difference is one of the major issues of our time. Game shows like Talkin’‘bout Your Generation assume that Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y contestants have very different attitudes and knowledge…
Principales colaboradores
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Visiting Clinical Research Fellow in older people's substance use and mental health, King's College London
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Research Fellow, PhD candidate, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Urban Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Lecturer in Finance, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Canterbury Christ Church University
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Emeritus Professor, University of New England
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Regents and Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Professor, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
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Deputy Vice-chancellor Research, Charles Sturt University
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Honorary Research Fellow, Keele University
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
