Group examines how to serve upcoming surge of seniors, retirees
By Julie Wurth
Sunday December 3, 2006
Vanda Bidwell
Mildred Smith Jones gets coffee and breakfast from home health care worker Lucille Buchanan in her Champiagn home. Jones, 89, says she values the assistant — and more importantly, the company.
The 80 million Americans known as baby boomers are charging hard into their retirement years, and they're not going out the way their parents or grandparents did.
Their mantra? "I know what I want, and I want it now," said Mike O'Donnell, executive director of the East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging. "That's pretty much what people have told us."
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