At 98 She’s A Social Media Star
Understanding what motivates and inspires Boomers and Gen X since 2022
“I delight in the past.”
– Henri Matisse
At 98 she’s a social media star
Dorothy Wiggins needed a hobby after the death of her husband. Now she’s big on TikTok and Instagram.Tens of thousands of people follow the accounts, which chronicle Mrs. Wiggins’s late 90s as she navigates life in New York and the Hamptons equipped with a wooden walking staff, vintage hats and a bone-dry sense of humor. “TikTok feels stupid to me,” she said. “You need more than a momentary thing. I watched ‘Casablanca’ the other night. Now that’s the perfect length for a movie. I just think it’s bad for concentration and that it’s going to make people stupider.”
Young adults are having a hard time embracing the “adult.”
A new survey revealed that Gen Z and millennial adults are facing more difficulties than their parents did when it comes to achieving milestones in the workforce.
Of the 1,039 young adults surveyed, aged between 18 and 34, 55% said it’s “much harder” to buy a home, 44% said it’s harder to find a job, and 55% said it’s harder to get promoted, according to a Youth & Money in the USA poll by CNBC and Generation Lab. However, 40% of those people said it’s easier for them to seek out economic opportunities that don’t rely on traditional employment. “This is purely a snapshot of what young people perceive their lives to be like compared to their parents,” said Cyrus Beschloss, founder of Generation Lab, an organization that built the largest respondent database of young people in America.
Despite the wave of boomers returning to work after the Great Retirement, America’s workforce still needs 2 million more retirees
Retirees are known for playing bingo in Florida, watching Jeopardy with religious fervor, and voting at every election. They’re less known for returning to the workforce. But right now, that’s exactly what some forlorn economists are hoping for.
Boomer dad plays song to comfort his daughter going through divorce and it's simply perfect
Sometimes you don’t need a word.
There’s no shortage of stories out there showing how emotionally distant or out of touch some baby boomers can be. Younger generations are so fed up with it that they have their own catchphrase of frustration, for crying out loud. The disconnect becomes especially visible in parenting styles. Boomers, who grew up with starkly different views on empathy, trauma and seeking help, have a reputation for being less than ideal support systems for their children when it comes to emotional issues. But even if they often have a different way of showing it, boomer parents do have love for their children, and many try their best to be a source of comfort in some way when their kid suffers. Occupational therapist Jacqueline (@jac.rose8) recently shared a lovely example of this by posting a video of her boomer dad helping her through a divorce in the best way he knew how.
Turns out, it was the perfect thing.
Scientists name eight measures that can slow aging by up to six years
Measures including healthy sleep and regular exercise may slow pace of body’s biological aging Scientists have named eight health measures that can slow the body’s ageing process by six years. Keeping body weight, blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure in check while maintaining healthy sleep and eating regimes, doing regular physical activity and not smoking may slow the aging process by around six years, US experts say. A study suggests that following these measures promotes good heart health, which in turn may slow the pace of biological aging by up to six years.