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Zorro

(15,749 posts) Tue Apr 16, 2019, 01:32 PM Apr 2019

Baby boomers may have no one to care for them in old age

Baby boomers may have no one to care for them in their old age.

Shifting demographics mean that aging boomers will have fewer friends and family members to take care of them as they get into their 80s, according to a new study by AARP.

In other words, even though you may be supporting your own elderly parents, the chances of someone being there for you are numerically diminished.

The ratio of potential caregivers to boomers needing care will sink from 7.2 to 1 in 2010 to 2.9 to 1 by 2050, according to the study. “In just 13 years, as the baby boomers age into their 80s, the decline in the caregiver support ratio will shift from a slow decline to a free-fall,” according to the study.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/caregiver/news-for-caregivers/story/2019-04-12/baby-boomers-may-have-no-one-to-care-for-them-in-old-age

This is an impending national socioeconomic problem.

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Baby boomers may have no one to care for them in old age (Original Post) Zorro Apr 2019 OP

As a Boomer, I expect NO ONE to be around when I'm old or dead. n/t CousinIT Apr 2019 #1

You can have someone around if you have a little credit card debt, because you can bet Submariner Apr 2019 #2

Of course the corprat parasitocracy feed off of us before we're born till after we die.... CousinIT Apr 2019 #12

+1 n/t area51 Apr 2019 #3

Mail carrier will call coroner for me. IADEMO2004 Apr 2019 #4

Expect assisted suicide to gain wide legal acceptance within the next 5 to 10 years. NT enough Apr 2019 #5

Amen to that blueinredohio Apr 2019 #6

I sure hope so get the red out Apr 2019 #8

SCOTUS Kavanaugh & Gorsuch are both anti "right to die, death with dignity" zealots stuffmatters Apr 2019 #11

Absolutely, many interests will block diginity choices. appalachiablue Apr 2019 #14

Yes,and I've been emphatic w/rels to never,ever admit me to any religious hospital stuffmatters Apr 2019 #15

Already a serious problem for some boomers in their 60s, 70s appalachiablue Apr 2019 #7

I expect the Japanese to come to the rescue with robots. nt raccoon Apr 2019 #9

The OP would be helpful for SENIORS, I'll X-Post to that DU group appalachiablue Apr 2019 #10

An this is where immigrants can help, going into caregiving jobs. SharonAnn Apr 2019 #13

Orphans. Highly vulnerable to predators. appalachiablue Apr 2019 #16

CousinIT

(9,256 posts)

1. As a Boomer, I expect NO ONE to be around when I'm old or dead. n/t

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 01:34 PM

Apr 2019

Submariner

(12,506 posts)

2. You can have someone around if you have a little credit card debt, because you can bet

Reply to CousinIT (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 01:46 PM

Apr 2019

MasterCard and VISA will strip the brass from your coffin if they can get a last dime from you as you settle in for your dirt nap.

CousinIT

(9,256 posts)

12. Of course the corprat parasitocracy feed off of us before we're born till after we die....

Reply to Submariner (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 04:49 PM

Apr 2019

...that's a given.

area51

(11,919 posts)

3. +1 n/t

Reply to CousinIT (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 01:53 PM

Apr 2019

IADEMO2004

(5,557 posts)

4. Mail carrier will call coroner for me.

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 01:56 PM

Apr 2019

enough

(13,262 posts)

5. Expect assisted suicide to gain wide legal acceptance within the next 5 to 10 years. NT

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 02:16 PM

Apr 2019

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)

6. Amen to that

Reply to enough (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 02:53 PM

Apr 2019

get the red out

(13,468 posts)

8. I sure hope so

Reply to enough (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 03:34 PM

Apr 2019

People deserve choices.

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)

11. SCOTUS Kavanaugh & Gorsuch are both anti "right to die, death with dignity" zealots

Reply to enough (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 04:22 PM

Apr 2019

Anti choice from birth to death.

appalachiablue

(41,168 posts)

14. Absolutely, many interests will block diginity choices.

Reply to stuffmatters (Reply #11)

Tue Apr 16, 2019, 07:35 PM

Apr 2019

It's certainly coming sunset for many Boomers, and well before the year 2050 noted as peak in the article.

It was a very good run for a generation...