TY - JOUR T1 - Wisdom keeping: Coming of age in the 21st century JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 3 LP - 3 VL - 39 IS - 1 AU - Cheryl Easley Y1 - 2009/02/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/39/1/3.1.abstract N2 - My generation of baby boomers is moving faster than many of us care to think toward the traditional beginning of the life stage of old age. The sheer numbers of our cohort and its commanding proportion of the population at each phase of our development have shaped the lived experience of childhood, youth and middle-age. Questions regarding the imprint we will leave on the pattern of aging in America are many: Will we be needed and willing to work long past the usual age of retirement, or will we seek fulfillment in new career paths? In what proportions will we realize our economic promise as the most well educated and affluent group to reach seniority thus far? And how many of us will enjoy the results of our general emphasis on health and fitness as we age?Copyright The Nation’s Health, American Public Health Association ER -