How did the baby boom affect society?

Answer 1

Baby Boomers are beginning to take early retirement. They want to be young enough to enjoy life before they succumb to diseases. Some will travel, perhaps start a business of their own or simply enjoy their family, gardening, fishing, or doing whatever they feel like doing. This means it will put a drain on companies for experienced employees because there are so many Baby Boomers retiring. In Canada they are going to ask some of the early retired Baby Boomers to come back to work (even part-time) to help train younger employees. Good idea, because well over 50% of especially men can't handle total retirement and miss the comeradery of their fellow workers.

Baby Boomers are going to put a large drain on an already miserable existence of health care in the U.S. and Canada. Both governments knew about this problem of Baby Boomers and never did a thing about it. There is absolutely no reason there shouldn't be enough money in the coffers of both governments to give good quality health care to everyone, but, it's not there and I doubt our governments really care. This will lead to more and more "pay as you go" clinics in Canada (following very closely to the way U.S. health care is.)

It will also affect how many more doctors, nurses, etc., will be needed. In Canada they are only pumping out 200 doctors each year when they really need 400. There won't be enough nursing homes to accommodate the aging Baby Boomers and so our Canadian Government has turned around and tried to make the families care for their loved ones at home which is sometimes impossible with both people have to work and most families can't afford private care for their aging parents.

Answer 2

It made for more need in childcare and resources. As the children grew it made for the need of more jobs and when they are older it will lead to more need to elderly care.