Image by Flicrk via Flickrby: Carole Fleck | from: AARP Bulletin
They came of age starting in the turbulent 1960s amid the Vietnam War, the fight for civil rights and women's rights. Today, America's largest generation, the boomers (those born 1946-1964), still question authority and have a strong social conscience, according to an AARP Bulletin poll on perceptions of boomers.
The oldest of the boomers are turning 65 this month. Yet at least two in three boomers — who were 46 to 64 years old when the poll was done in November — fear aging, think that the term "senior" doesn't apply to them and believe that they'll be healthier in retirement than their parents were, the survey found.
But they may not be better off financially. Only 43 percent of 1,507 people age 18 and up surveyed say they believe that boomers will have more money in retirement compared with their parents' generation. Among the boomers polled, 45 percent of those ages 46 to 53, and 54 percent of those ages 54 to 64, agree.
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