Are baby boomers dying younger?

While increasing numbers of the Great Generation are living past 100, Baby Boomers are facing earlier deaths at alarming rates, making Millennials the ... read more

From a few 100 illegal deaths in the 70s, we now lose 1000s of our young (and younger) people every year, people who could have become the doctors, cab drivers, nurses, and companions of the elderly. Boomers aren’t just dying off in record numbers, they leave behind a shorter life expectancy for us all. read more

Furthermore, people facing economic stress seem to die younger than those who are comfortable, and job loss worries could push more boomers into that low-income, high-stress group with higher death rates than their well-to-do peers, suggests Rice University's Denney. read more

"Despite their longer life expectancy over previous generations, U.S. baby boomers have higher rates of chronic disease, more disability and lower self-rated health than members of the previous generation at the same age," wrote the study's authors, led by Dr. Dana E. King, professor and chair of family medicine at West Virginia University in Morgantown. read more