Gerontologist Coins New Term, "Zoomers" Awesomely Ageless Boomers Dr. David J. Demko, professor of gerontology and editor AgeVenture News Service 04-10-1998 There's a totally new a kind of Boomer. Boomers who break retirement tradition. Increased life-expectancy has transformed "Yesterday's Yuppies" into Today's "Zoomers". These new boomers are coloring outside the lines, zig-zaging and zoooooming toward a bright new horizon chock-full of possibilities for reinventing retirement and redefining what it means to be a mature adult in the new millennium. Are you a BOOMER? You are if your birthday falls between 1946 and 1964. That birth period defines you as one America's the Post-World-War-II Baby Boomers. However, birth dates alone don't tell you much about how a person thinks or acts. Not all Boomers think and act the same. Some Boomers are breaking new ground, re-defining aging and re-inventing retirement. That's why I coined the term ZOOMERS to identify this trend-setting group of Boomers. Are you a ZOOMER? The answer is "yes", if you measure up to the operational definition I created for Zoomers. A ZOOMER is someone who: knows the difference between primary (inevitable) and secondary (reversible) aging performs daily exercise (aerobics for endurance, anaerobics for strength, and neurobics for brain power calculates daily nutritional and caloric needs based on age, gender, and weight orchestrates a social support system of companions, close friends, and a confidante enjoys a positive self-concept, and a passion for living life to the fullest achieves the resources necessary to live an adventurous life thanks to sound retirement planning One million boomers are expected to live 100 years. Will you be one of them? Join the Retirement Renaissance ... a bold, new brand of maturity ... advocating spirited, adventurous lifestyles. Find out if you're a BOOMER, or a ZOOMER. Age-Audit (tm) the status of your health and well-being with the "Original Death Calculator" ... estimating life-expectancies since 1974. Gerontologist, Dr. David J. Demko reports how modern science offers a way to Youth'n (R) your life in his book, "Youth'n Your Life: boomer, zoomer and beyond" (2007). read more Photo credit: AgeVenture Press, Boca Raton, Florida. BACK TO TOP