The baby boomers cohort is soon approaching the last third of their lives while they try to disentangle the many stereotypes the elderly encounters today. The baby boomers are now beginning to attain a new vantage point about getting old. This is the first approaching age cohort in American society that is trying to make a difference with being able to accept the concept of growing old as the true so-called "golden years." The baby …showed first 75 words of 431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 431 total…process of aging, and not pinpoint it to just a change that they individually encounter alone, then they could possibly realize this happens to us all at one point in life. Therefore, we may not have such negative feelings about becoming old or even being old. If society can learn to obtain these attitudes towards being old maybe it will even become a self fulfilling prophecy as viewing the elderly from a new positive perspective.