Baby Boomers More Likely to Suffer From Poor Health Than Earlier Generations: Study

Baby boomers live longer but are more likely to experience health problems in their later years than their predecessors at the same age, new research suggests. People born in the late 1940s and 1950s are at a higher risk than their predecessors of having cancer, lung disease, heart problems, diabetes, and high cholesterol as they enter their 50s and 60s. Researchers from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies and the University of Oxford analysed the risk of having multiple health problems for baby boomers in England, the United States, and Europe. They found evidence of a “generational health drift,” where younger generations tend to have worse health than previous generations at the same age....