Exam 11: Aging Boomers: Boom or Bust

What proportion of the U.S. population do Boomers make up?

In what year did the oldest baby boomers turn age 65?

When considering any cohort, such as the boomers, it is important to keep in mind not only age, period, and cohort effects, but the impact of class, ethnicity, and gender as well in shaping individual experiences.

Aging effects are effects brought about by the physiological process of aging, along with social responses by others to those effects.

In the story, Boomsday, which of the following "transitioning" refers to?

Boomers were the first generation in American history where more than half achieved some level of higher education.

"Generation Jones" is another name for the baby boomers born between 1946 and 1954.

The generation of the "boomers" refers to people who were born in the United States between 1946 and 1964.

In the essay by McArdle, what does the analogy "like watching a pig move through a python" refer to?

According to Goldsmith, the boomer crisis predicted by the "catastropharians" cannot be avoided-it is inevitable.

Most of the large-scale surveys conducted with boomers unfortunately do not take into account the ethnic diversity of the cohort, thus these general findings can be quite misleading and obscure health disparities for ethnic minorities. How might different sub-groups of boomers experience later life? How will programs, services, and policies need to change in order to meet the particular needs of different groups of aging boomers?