Baby Boomer "Retirement" Trends

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More and more baby boomers are choosing to sell their homes and move into 55-plus mobile home communities in warm areas where rents are affordable and there’s a sense of community among residents.

The anti-clutter movement has met the anti-brown furniture movement. And feelings are getting hurt.

Most older people don’t relocate after they retire, but when they do, it’s not likely to be to a place selected by a survey editor.

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Wisdom never gets old.

Careers will be longer and more varied.

Departing the workforce entirely and entering retirement at age 65 is no longer a reality for many older people in the United States, according to a recent survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The study finds that there are large numbers of older Americans who are currently, or who expect to be, working longer. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that they are continuing with the same employment circumstances indefinitely.

For some, it’s the best time of their career.

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No one really wants to sit around and do nothing.

Anyone whose business involves selling something can tell you there is no shortage of information and research about connecting with millennials. But as millennials capture marketers’ attention, 75 million influential customers, between the ages of 51 and 69, are out there ready to spend. Influent50 researchi shows that marketers today are either speaking to Baby Boomers ineffectively – or ignoring them altogether – and the impact is so profound that Boomers themselves are taking notice.

Before we jump enthusiastic into the New Year, it's important to reflect on the consumer behaviors that shaped marketing trends in 2015. How the popularity of texting gave us the pizza emoji. How our appetite for content galvanized native advertising.

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Anyone whose business involves selling something can tell you there is no shortage of information and research about connecting with millennials. But as millennials capture marketers' attention, 75 million influential customers, between the ages of 51 and 69, are out there ready to spend.

Coincidence or not I have been aware for most of this year that Robert DeNiro would have a new movie out this month about him being a 70 year old intern in a e-retailing company run by Anne Hathaway.