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Stories about: baby boomers

How Baby Boomers Affect Retirement Plans A team of Australian researchers is saying that the Baby Boomers segment of the population is starting to reinvent what retiring from the field of work means. The term Baby Boomer refers to cohorts of the general population that were born during the middle part of the 20th Century, after the end of World Wa... 11 October 2010 11:23 GMT Microsoft: Ignoring Baby Boomers a Serious Mistake Baby boomers have a few indisputable aces up their sleeves that make them an indispensable consumer segment for any technology vendors to focus on. In fact, ignoring people over 50 would be a serious mistake for companies designing and producing the devices, software and services of tomorrow, Microsoft warned, citin... 2 December 2009 09:09 GMT Robot to Help Baby Boomers at Old Age Baby boomers are now entering the age of retirement, which could trigger a crisis within the US medical system; however, robots like uBOT-5 may be used to reduce the impact, say researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. "For the first time, robots are safe enough and inexpensive enough to do meaningfu... 17 April 2008 06:40 GMT