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By: Weekly Round Up - Imagination Mover’s Style | Good Financial Cents

Weekly Round Up - Imagination Mover’s Style | Good Financial Cents — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:49:36 +0000

[...] Carnival of Boomers and Seniors [...]

By: Kaye

Kaye — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:39:49 +0000

Great blog carnival. I tweeted it and blogged about it at SandwichINK

By: Boomers And Seniors Blog Carnival – March 17, 2009 | SandwichINK.com

Boomers And Seniors Blog Carnival – March 17, 2009 | SandwichINK.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:16:43 +0000

[...] are just a few of the many articles you can find at Seniors For Living . Other topics include Senior Care and Caregiving, Senior and Boomer Trends, Financial Issues, [...]

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:17:33 +0000

That’s a great comment — thank you. We have actually just covered this discussion in a recent post: http://www.seniorsforliving.com/blog/2009/03/11/generation-jones/.

We’d love to invite you or a Generation Jones-specific blog to participate in our next Blog Carnival, for certain: http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_5889.html

Thanks again for offering up the USA Today link. I’m sure readers will find it of interest.

- Gina LaGuardia, SFL Editorial Director

By: moyh648

moyh648 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:36:50 +0000

Interesting blog, but it’s missing an important part of the equation: Generation Jones, born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Generation X. Google Generation Jones, and you’ll see it’s gotten a ton of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (Washington Post, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) now specifically use this term.

It is important to distinguish between the post-WWII demographic boom in births vs. the cultural generations born during that era. Generations are a function of the common formative experiences of its members, not the fertility rates of its parents. Many experts now believe it breaks down this way:

DEMOGRAPHIC boom in babies: 1946-1964
Baby Boom GENERATION: 1942-1953
Generation Jones: 1954-1965

Here is a recent op-ed about GenJones as the new generation of leadership in USA TODAY:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm