April 1, 2007

In search of the online fountain of vitality

Young people get all the credit for being technologically savvy. Sure, they can bop their heads to their iPods while text-messaging their friends and snapping photos on their cell phones.

    But baby boomers aren’t far behind their kids when it comes to technology – Bill Gates is 51 – and technology is changing the way boomers approach retirement.

“Boomers have looked at the way their parents grew older, and they’re not going to grow old the same way,´ said Matt Thornhill, president of the Boomer Project, a Richmond, Va.-based marketing and consulting firm focused on baby boomers. “They want…

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