Rock 'n' Roll Rest Home. Mary Ann Hogan.
by Hogan, Mary Ann; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 50Family. Publisher: Sun-Sentinel, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Aging -- Forecasting | Baby boom generation (1946-1964) | Identity (Psychology) in old age | Older people -- Attitudes | Older people -- Death | Retirement communities | Rock musicDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Pass the bran muffins, light the incense, and crank up the Rolling Stones. It's breakfast time here at the Sunny Hills Rock 'n' Roll Rest Home, that rollicking feel-good place where our nation's 77 million Baby Boomers will go to stage the final act of their lives. Before anyone trips over the phone cord trying to get on a waiting list, know that the Rock 'n' Roll Rest Home is still, at this point, just an idea, a metaphor, a dream, a best-case scenario, maybe even, depending on your proclivities, a hallucination. One that a loose network of forward-thinking experts has been pondering as we march toward that demographic watershed of a date, Jan. 1, 2011. That's the day the Boomers start turning 65." (SUN-SENTINEL) The author considers how the Baby Boom generation will handle the aging process.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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| REF SIRS 2006 Family Article 49 Do You Want to Live Forever?. | REF SIRS 2006 Family Article 5 Stressed Out!. | REF SIRS 2006 Family Article 50 Glory Days for Boomers. | REF SIRS 2006 Family Article 50 Rock 'n' Roll Rest Home. | REF SIRS 2006 Family Article 51 Staring Down the Aging Process. | REF SIRS 2006 Family Article 51 Hardships May Loom As Nation Goes Gray. | REF SIRS 2006 Family Article 52 The Coming Death Shortage. |
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.
Originally Published: Rock 'n' Roll Rest Home, March 27, 2005; pp. 1H+.
"Pass the bran muffins, light the incense, and crank up the Rolling Stones. It's breakfast time here at the Sunny Hills Rock 'n' Roll Rest Home, that rollicking feel-good place where our nation's 77 million Baby Boomers will go to stage the final act of their lives. Before anyone trips over the phone cord trying to get on a waiting list, know that the Rock 'n' Roll Rest Home is still, at this point, just an idea, a metaphor, a dream, a best-case scenario, maybe even, depending on your proclivities, a hallucination. One that a loose network of forward-thinking experts has been pondering as we march toward that demographic watershed of a date, Jan. 1, 2011. That's the day the Boomers start turning 65." (SUN-SENTINEL) The author considers how the Baby Boom generation will handle the aging process.
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