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Listen to Dennis Hopper in those retirement-planning commercials and you might suppose the oldest baby boomers are a bunch of unreconstructed Aquarians. A report from MetLife’s Mature Market Institute yields a different picture, based on polling of those who turn 62 this year (making them eligible for Social Security checks).
Sandra Timmermann, the institute’s director, writes that these leading-edge boomers are “very much like the ‘Silent Generation’ that preceded them,” having settled into “very traditional lifestyle characteristics.”
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