The baby boomers, with their unprecedented size, demographic characteristics, and unique generational character, are changing the landscape of aging as they move into the later stages of life. It is not only baby boomers that are changing aging but also longer life, health improvements, well-established welfare state policies for income security and health insurance for older adults, historical improvements in educational attainment, an ideological shift to the concepts of fruitful and productive aging, and widespread challenges to conventional negative stereotypes about growing older.As a human service and public service leader, it is important to identify the impact of baby boomers on the family in later life. Using your course materials, personal experience, the family in later life interviews you conducted, and the Riverbend City family, address the following in your discussion:Support your discussion with references from current professional journals.There are tens of thousands of Web sites about and for baby boomers that address issues of aging and the family in later life. Search one Web site baby boom aging and family in later life and one Web site designed baby boomers and family in later life. As a human service and public service leader, share the Web sites, and for each of the two Web sites discuss the following:
