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Like many baby boomers, 63-year-old Beth Thomas feels her age. Each passing year brings more aches and pains. Old injuries have started grumbling again. Fingers that were once supple are often stiff and sore.
I'm 50 so that would make me a younger boomer and I'm minus any aches and pains so far. I do believe this study because I see lots of folks my age and older who look like death warmed over. Too much food and not enough X-er-cise.
I think about my parents and their friends at my age and can sincerely say - my friends and I look better and have less chronic problems (or at least - no more) than my parents' friends and others I knew in the community . . . so I think this is just more sensationalism from writers who are looking for very low hanging fruit to fill editorial calendars, lol.
I keep asking - where are all these miserable Boomers? I just don't know them.
I think that it was too much exercise. THis is the generation that ran so much and other fanatic exercising to stave off growing old, foolish people. Anyway not they find they need new knees and new hips and all sorts of other things.
I DO think that the Boomers are aging worse than the preceding generation. Obviously does not apply across the board but as a general statement yes I think they are and will be worse.
I think about my parents and their friends at my age and can sincerely say - my friends and I look better and have less chronic problems (or at least - no more) than my parents' friends and others I knew in the community . . . so I think this is just more sensationalism from writers who are looking for very low hanging fruit to fill editorial calendars, lol.
I keep asking - where are all these miserable Boomers? I just don't know them.
Totally agree, as I've noted before. I wrote long and thoughtful responses to this claim the last five times it came up, so I don't really feel like doing it again. Essentially it all boils down to what Ani said. The media can print these scare stories designed to attract readers all they want, I don't buy it because it doesn't match my particular experience or observation. Might buy the claim that we've spent too much time exercising, though. Not that I'm gonna stop, exercise is my habit and it's too late to break the habit now.
If you go looking for miserable people, you'll find lots of them, 'misery loves company.'
If you go looking for happy people, you'll find lots of them too, they naturally gravitate to others.
Anyone here who doesn't know some folks who are almost always happy AND some others who are almost always miserable? And haven't changed as long as you've known them?
It didn't resonate with me and counters what I remember of how people in this age group looked or behaved when I was younger (of course, iirc, we thought everyone >30 was on death's doorstep. I remember people looking a lot older and being far more sedentary in the main (exceptions of course). Memories could be flawed, though, but this NBC report wasn't esp. convincing to me.
The article claimed one reason boomers are aging worse was that the number of people with high cholesterol has doubled in a single generation. But there was no mention that we've drastically lowered the number for what is considered too high, so in part, we count more people having this condition just because we changed the definition. Nor any mention that the population of people in this age group is far larger than in the last generation. I didn't look at the source material, and I grant it is hard to believe it wouldn't have been accounted for, so maybe the writer was just lazy.
Another reason given that boomers are aging badly was that 10% more people in this group are obese than in the last generation. Again, no mention that we've changed the official numbers for the definition of obesity as well, which has increased the number of people considered obese now who wouldn't be in that category in the last generation.
And so on. It just seemed a bit underwhelming in the proof department to be arriving at the conclusion it reached.
its a mix. i am very healthy. retired for last 5 years. planning on living longer too.
im a boomer. but i am not typical.
most are big eaters and hate exercise not good.
but if you want to see true slobs look at y generation,
75% of y generation unfit for the draft.
i can excuse an old slob but harder to do so for one 20 years old.
I amnot sure of this like amny articles based on stats. i can well remmber senior when I was a kid. Sure mnay wre not classified as disabled but mnay would be by today standards.Bascially it doesn't mean that people didn't wearout joints etc ;its just that they considered it noraml and continued working. Jobs where much mroe disablig then because of such hard labor much of which has been chnaged by technolgy.I eman how long as it been since you saw guys with a shovel doing repaving of a roadway. Its mostly machine assisted now.
64+ years old here, and am weary, tired, and disgusted by articles such as this.
It doesn't take much effort to maintain flexibility and strength.
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. I remember people looking a lot older and being far more sedentary in the main (exceptions of course). Memories could be flawed, though, but this NBC report wasn't esp. convincing to me. 
