How Aging Parents Will Impact Baby Boomers

Between 1958 to 1963 you knew The Naked City television show was starting when you heard, “There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."

Today, I receive dozens of alerts and news stories about how technology and demographic trends are changing our lives.  Individually these stories demonstrate how small groups of people around the world are being impacted by change and innovation as well as a shift in power going from the traditional economies - United States and Europe –driving global growth to developing nations.  We now have six billion stories in this naked world of others…..and this is just one of them.

The list of stories about worker shortages just keeps getting longer and longer.  But work shortages aren’t the only thing causing the Perfect Labor Storm.  The Perfect Labor Storm is the story about how changes in nearly every aspect of our lives today will affect how you do business tomorrow.

One of the most poignant stories came across my screen this morning.  This story is very real and for many of us baby boomers it is top-of-mind.  So top-of-mind that is distracts many of us from the demands and focus required to do our jobs.

What follows is just one Perfect Labor Storm story:  “For every 1,000 people age 65 and older who "retire" to Florida there are about 481 that leave. My father and my stepmother will soon be among those 481 -- provided my siblings and I can come up with a plan.”  Read more about how just one segment of how an aging population will change the way people work.