Letter from Tampa: Aging gets a makeover at this gerontology summit

The 76 million Americans in the great baby boom demographic bulge will all be 60 to 79 years old next year. But their powerful influence on the economy, education, culture, politics, and lifestyles is not retiring.

Outlines are emerging of how the now-older generation is expected to meet the experience of aging and reshape our culture. Its immediate predecessors – members of the so-called Greatest Generation (born 1901-1924) and the Silent Generation (born 1925-1945) – are already registering record numbers of centenarians and stretching boomers’ expectations