What your travel agent won’t tell you, or quite possibly doesn’t know, unless they are a Japan specialist. Japan is an increasingly popular travel destination, especially among older travellers, and will become all the more so as the 2020 Tokyo Olympics draw nearer. I have spent nine years of my life in Japan, working and […]
Tackling retirement
The baby boomer generation has been impacting on society for over six decades, on education, employment, health, housing, recreation, transportation, travel, and more. But now, the topic of particular importance to us is retirement. I ceased regular paid work at the end of March 2014, aged 64 and a half. My choice would have been […]
Contemplating retirement
A successful retirement can be an elusive goal for many people, often because they simply don’t realise what is required to make it a success. At best, sometime prior to stopping work they may have received some financial advice aimed at maximising their financial security in retirement, but other than that the likelihood is they […]
Baby boomers and Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are impacting on increasing numbers, as both sufferer and carer. Lives of both are being irretrievably changed, but life still goes on, and while it’s important to cater to the changing needs of sufferers, the carers also have needs that must be considered. An unorthodox threesome […]
Baby boomer friends with benefits
Inevitably when the expression ‘friends with benefits’ comes up it’s associated with people between the age of when they first become sexually active and marry. It refers to the practice of males and females who are not dating, or in a monogamous relationship, but who are friends and socialise together or as part of an […]
Young at heart baby boomers
Both born in 1950, Caroline and Andrew commenced work at a bank the same day, as graduate trainees. They soon began dating, and within eighteen months were married, becoming the parents of two children. Caroline had more conservative views on everything than Andrew, and unlike him was religious, but they seamlessly took these differences in […]
Servicing baby boomers
One chilly early Spring night Ivan was walking through Melbourne’s CBD on his own, following dinner with a few friends. Not minding the walk, whenever he goes to the city by car he usually parks in the vicinity of the Treasury Gardens. On this occasion, rather than returning directly to his car, on impulse he […]
Baby boomers setting standards
Neville first met Beverley midway through first term of his second year at university, in the cafeteria, in 1972. She was doing first year of a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in philosophy. Naturally it was her good looks that attracted him and prompted him to greet her, then at her invitation join her for […]
Baby boomers in mourning
Statistically a woman is more likely than a man to be put through a period of grieving following the loss of a long-term companion. Twenty to twenty five per cent of women will have lost such a person by the time they turn 65, and as many as fifty percent of the remaining women in […]
Baby boomers living alone
Cindy had faced many challenges through her adult life, but the biggest came when she discovered her husband of thirty six years was having an affair with his long-time and still single secretary. Life had been settling in nicely to a slower-paced routine for Cindy, with their three children flown the coop, and as many […]
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