OPINION: Boomers have shaped history, from their teenage years in the hippie movement to the sexual and gender revolutions. They reshaped the workforce with unprecedented numbers of women. And they're going to change retirement too.
In the new book, “What Retirees Want: A Holistic View of Life’s Third Age,” authors Ken Dychtwald and Robert Morison swing for the fences with a sweeping review of the conception and perception of retirement and pinpoints what lies ahead.Those of you who are hip to Dychtwald, founder and chief executive of Age Wave, a consulting and research company, will appreciate, as always, his deep research, statistics, and analysis. There’s commentary and insights from leading aging and work experts.
“The boomers have famously—or infamously—reshaped every stage of life they’ve inhabited,” they write. “Their early years caused a market boom in baby products. Their teenage years gave rise to the hippie movement. They activated sexual and gender revolutions. They reshaped the workforce with unprecedented numbers of women.”
“Throughout their lives, boomers have had an ambitious appetite for breaking rules of all sorts and experimenting with a diverse range of lifestyles. We are convinced that these proclivities will be central to their retirements.” Next, the “Live for Todays” who “seek continued personal growth and want to keep reinventing themselves. They have the biggest list of things they’d like to do and would ideally like their retirement to be an extension of their free-spirited lives,” according to the authors.
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