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On Oct. 15, 2007, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, generally acknowledged to be the first American baby boomer, filed for social security benefits. With this act, she single-handedly initiated an event many call the “senior tsunami.”
While America has long been expected to grow older, many of the demographers and statisticians who predicted the rise in senior population did not expect seniors to live longer and healthier. Nor did they predict boomers would continue to live in single-family homes in the suburban neighborhoods they established in the ’50s and ’60s.
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