News, Trend: Retirement 2.0, The Boomer Generation is Redefining the "Golden Years" (boomers)

[John1960]

The latest trend in retirement is not to retire. Well, at least not in the traditional sense. As millions of baby boomers begin the transition into their golden years, "retirement" is a word that is falling out of favor.



Trend: Retirement 2.0, The Boomer Generation is Redefining the "Golden Years"

[GLS]

Originally Posted by John1960

The latest trend in retirement is not to retire. Well, at least not in the traditional sense. As millions of baby boomers begin the transition into their golden years, "retirement" is a word that is falling out of favor.



Trend: Retirement 2.0, The Boomer Generation is Redefining the "Golden Years"

Thanks John1960 for the interesting article. Of course I did notice that these people are far from the normal "baby boomers". First they are in the peak of health, still being able to downhill ski and hike mountains. Some of us are preoccupied with how to get out of bed in the morning and are spending an hour making sure we took all our medications correctly.

In addition, if you read carefully you will find the people in the article are
"former mutual fund managers", and "owners of their own printing businesses".

I would submit that being both healthy and rich "redefines the golden years" in a fairly unique perspective. Therefore, perhaps your premise that
these this article describes "millions of baby boomers transitioning into their golden years", should be rephrased as "baby boomers WITH millions are transitioning into their golden years".