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| Who are the baby boomers of the 1960s? | | Author(s) | Aideen Young, Anthea Tinker |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 21, no 4, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 197-205 |
| Full text* | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/WWOP-06-2017-0015 |
| Annotation | The 8.3 million babies who were born during the 1960s in the UK are now 48 to 57 years old. With growing concern about population ageing and the oldest of this large cohort on the brink of later life, it is timely to provide an overview of selected characteristics of this cohort, to help predict likely needs and choices for services and products in later life. This paper aims to discuss these issues. A synthesis (non-systematic) of the academic and grey literature, plus data from various sources including the Office for National Statistics (ONS) was used to construct a picture of the 1960s baby boomer. Characteristics with the potential to signify lifestyle changes in this cohort (compared with previous cohorts of older people) include: a higher probability of living alone in old age due to high rates of childlessness and divorce; a possibly larger proportion of their lives spent with one or more chronic conditions (although the prevalence of disability affecting activities of daily living is lower than for previous cohorts); high levels of home ownership; increased rates of employment at older ages; and reduced wealth compared with previous cohorts. The term 'baby boomer' is generally used to denote people born in the undifferentiated surge of births that occurred in the USA between 1946 and 1964. In the UK, the post Second World War spike in births was followed by a separate, broad surge in births across the 1960s, but there has been very little analysis specifically of the 1960s cohort in this country. This paper addresses that gap, by bringing together the available evidence and data on this specific cohort in the UK. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171103206 A |
| Classmark | SE: GC: G3: S8: 64A: 8 |
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