Selfish boomers crowding out elderly agenda

At times, it seems like this week’s national conference on aging is more a conference on boomers, given the number of seminars devoted to issues about the baby boom generation. There are sessions on marketing to boomers, profiting from the boomers, consumer research about the boomers, enticing boomers to volunteer and more. On Thursday, a panel of academics and analysts focused on some of the contradictions within a generation that includes people born from 1946 through 1964. National Aging Conference is Boomer-Centric" Herald Tribune (Florida) scroll down