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March 5, 2015
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We hear all the time that “50 is the new 40” or “60 is the new 40″—claims that make it sound as though today’s baby boomers are healthier than their counterparts in other generations. But are they? A new study published in the The Milbank Quarterly suggests that baby boomers are not likely to be healthier than other generations. The impetus for the study, “Benefits Gained, Benefits Lost: Comparing Baby Boomers to Other Generations in a Longitudinal Cohort Study of Self-Rated Health,” written by Elizabeth M. Badley, professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and colleagues, was the tension between popular notions and scientific research regarding the health of aging baby boomers. To date, there is little scientific evidence addressing how the health of baby boomers compares with that of earlier generations.
