Expert panel on the future of a generation that continues to shape the future of our nation. This year, the Boomer generation’s youngest members celebrate 50th birthdays. And most who celebrated their 50th can expect to celebrate their 80th. As life expectancies hit a new peak, the wave of millions of adults living active, adventurous lives is so great in size and shift, it’s creating a new life stage -- something that hasn’t occurred since we created the “Retirement” life stage in the 1950s, and “Adolescence” at the turn of the 20th century. Boomers are changing ageing for everyone that will follow them, and creating new models of ageing informed by new expectations, different goals, and an entirely new way of thinking. What will this life stage look like? How will Boomers change the way our policies our executed, our cities our shaped, and our entertainment is produced? Throughout 2014, AARP will celebrate Boomers@50+. This panel will reflect on how Boomers have changed the world and ask – what’s next?
Joseph F. Coughlin, Jeffrey Cole, Myrna Blyth, Ronald Brownstein