Tag: baby boomers

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  It’s the Services Stupid! Transforming Old Age & New Technology Into Business Innovation

  24 days ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Many people looking to bring new ideas to old age are still warm from the glow of LED and plasma displays at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas earlier this month. Yes, there were screens, laptops and tablets a plenty…even a few robots and wearable devices to monitor ... Read More

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  Moving an America that is Both Big & Gray

  about 1 month ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Americans (and most everyone else in the world) are getting bigger. Yes, obesity is BIG news. Many of us have grown so large that the New York Times reports that public transportation operators are assessing just how big our rear ends are and what size seats to order for new rail cars and transit ... Read More

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  10 Longevity Planning Questions for Happy New Years to Come

  about 1 month ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  It’s that time again – the annual making of New Year resolutions. We all do it. A well thought out list of good intentions that we will execute faithfully on January 1…and many, if not all, are little more than frayed promises by February. This ritual drives sales of everything from gym equipment to ... Read More

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  What Holiday Shopping Tells Us About Innovations in Retirement Planning & Healthy Behaviors

  2 months ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Are you done? How many more days? Tick tock, tick tock. A recent Rasmussen poll may give you comfort or a kick. The nationwide survey conducted November 29-30, 2011 gives us a snapshot of how well everyone is preparing for the holiday rush that culminates in less than a month.     Have You ... Read More

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  Do Experts Slow Innovation?

  3 months ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Innovation – everyone says they want it, but when it’s time to personally embrace it and change what they do everyday there is often reluctance, if not outright resistance. In Doctors Slow to Embrace Telemedicine, Cloud Computing , Information Week’s Nicole Lewis reported the findings of CompTIA’s ... Read More

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  Downsizing the Box & the Smaller Future of Retail

  3 months ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Retailers and their suppliers are about to see real and lasting change to the size of their businesses. Not necessarily in sales but in physical size. The future is small and gray. The mothers of today’s baby boomers had an average of 3.8 children per mom…in contrast baby boomer women had only 2.1 ... Read More

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  Five Retirement Investments that Pay for a Lifetime

  4 months ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Ah retirement…you know the vision – vistas of long beaches, fairways, sunsets with umbrella drinks. Baloney. This imagery worked as an ideal for those who thought they might retire early and move to this future perfect oasis. New realities require us to rethink retirement. Yes, the economic downturn ... Read More

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  America’s New Generation Gap: Optimism

  4 months ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  The ‘generation gap’ of the 1960’s and 1970’s referred to the differences between the then young baby boomers and their parents about what was wrong and what should be – today there appears to be a new generation gap between the now older baby boomers and their kids about what will be. No one ... Read More

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  Why Baby Boomer Retirement Will Be An Improv Act

  5 months ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Who would ever think of aging and retirement as something new? The baby boomers are certainly not the first to grow old – but they are certainly headed for a different old age than their parents and all generations before them. The first six or so decades of life are generally a series of events ... Read More

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  Three Lessons Hurricane Irene Can Teach Financial Advisors About Retirement Planning

  6 months ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Hurricane Irene is going down in the ‘top 10’ record books as more costly than anticipated only a week ago. It is hurricane season. Not exactly a surprise that a ‘big one’ would be coming. What did the most recent hurricane teach us about how people prepare for something they know is coming and is ... Read More