Thursday, February 5, 2009

Baby Boomers and Memory Loss

Baby boomer is the term used to describe someone who was born during the post-World War II baby boom. Though there is no clear consensus as to what exactly a baby boomer is, this is the generally accepted definition for term. This is a generation of people that was generally associated with privilege and as a group, they were the healthiest, and wealthiest generation to that time.

The baby boomers are now an aging generation, and though many will refuse to admit it, they are a generation grappling with and trying to come to terms with old age and its attendant difficulties. Perhaps the most difficult issue that the Baby Boomer has to grapple with is that of Memory Loss. Memory is a person's mental ability to store, retain and recall information and the decline of this is known as memory loss.

The reason that baby boomers find the idea of memory loss so scary is largely because

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