While one aging baby boomer after another confronts the convoluted challenges of aging, often through care for their elderly parents, the longterm expectation that the huge generation of 78 million would foment an era of change has dimmed as media attention and political campaigning has zeroed in on the 83.1 million Millennials.
By Paul Kleyman
As a journalist, my perspective on aging is somewhat unusual, in that in 1972, when I began writing my book, Senior Power: Growing Old Rebelliously (1974), I believed I’d somehow found my way to the cutting edge of a new frontier in the movement for social justice. Opposing ageism was a cause I was sure everyone would see manifest in their morning mirrors. Until that period, few in the “Movement” had taken old age very seriously, especially as a looming issue of inequality.