Getting prepared for the boom.A visitor to the Web site, The Baby Boomer baby boomer also ba·by-boom·er n. A member of a baby-boom generation. Noun 1. baby boomer - a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s; "they expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers" boomer Generation, left an article about aging-in-place communities and inspired this response from the Web Master: "It's hard to imagine us allowing ourselves to be shipped off to nursing homes: the type of community that Madeline Hill started is beginning to sound pretty good--as long as we can have high-speed Internet See broadband. access. "Madeline Hill, a pioneer in the concept of aging-in-place, created Mountain Meadows Mountain Meadows, small valley in extreme SW Utah, where in 1857 a party of some 140 emigrants bound for California were massacred. It was a period when friction between Mormons and non-Mormons was acute, with Mormons bitterly resenting the coming of U.S. Community in Ashland, Oregon Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, near Interstate 5 and the California border, and located in the south end of the Rogue Valley. It was named after Ashland County, Ohio, point of origin of Abel Helman and other founders, and secondarily for Ashland, Kentucky, where other ." The comment sums up Baby Boomers and their lengthy wish lists. The task of preparing for this coming generation who always seem to want more can seem daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin . So, we created this theme issue about the impact of the Baby Boomer on long term care to help you prepare. First, we give you a collection of all the relevant demographic information abut To reach; to touch. To touch at the end; be contiguous; join at a border or boundary; terminate on; end at; border on; reach or touch with an end. The term abutting implies a closer proximity than the term adjacent. the Boomer: Who are they and what are their habits? What do they want? Then, we tell you what they say about long term care. We also show you how to win: We tell you how to sell to this new generation. We show you a winning design of a baby-boomer-friendly facility. We offer opinions on revamping the present financing system to accommodate the influx of this fussy, new customer. We know this information will help us all prepare for a more prosperous future. Call for entries We have officially started collecting entries for our 2004 Order of Excellence Awards in Design and Architecture. With help from our 2003 jury, we streamlined the entry form to make it easier to fill out. In addition, we've placed the entry form on the home page of our Web site, cltcmag.com Just download the PDF file. Instructions are on the site. Fill it out and mail it to us. We'll look forward to your entries. |
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