Work at Home Business Ideas

The Daily Telegraph:
Australia’s ageing population will create enormous opportunities for small businesses involved in these areas, finds the inaugural Business & Population Monitor from business advisory firm PKF, with Access Economics.
It found that as well as the ageing population, these sectors would also gain from Australia’s rising immigration and increased fertility rates.
It said the working-age […]

Forbes:
The 77 million baby boomers (adults aged 44 to 62) represent one-quarter of the U.S. population–and a whole lot more of its buying power.
Boomers generate $2 trillion in annual income, own more than 70% of U.S. financial assets and represent half of all discretionary spending, according to Age Wave, a San Francisco-based demographic-trend tracker. “Although […]

Journal Of New England Technology:
While the term “baby boomer” may be convenient for demographers, web-based businesses targeting them are finding them hard to pin down.
Sure, baby boomers may have discretionary income, but they’re also pressed for time and few people in that generation define themselves using that term, making them a difficult demographic to target […]

The New York Times:
You, too, can be an entrepreneur. Many of them are part of the first wave of America’s 76 million baby boomers who are taking early retirement and turning their hobbies into small businesses. Very small businesses.
They say their microbusinesses are a way to give focus to a favorite pastime, get more […]

Springwise:
For dieters working to lose weight, maintaining a decent wardrobe of clothes that fit can be an ongoing—and expensive—challenge on the way to a target size.
With just that situation in mind, Transitional Sizes rents out name-brand clothing for temporary use while the pounds come off.
Maryland-based Transitional Sizes, which just recently launched, offers women’s and maternity […]

USA Today:
Baby boomers who came of age in the era of John F. Kennedy’s civic call to arms are now, in the second half of their lives, not just asking themselves what they can do for their country, but they’re actually doing it.
A new telephone and Internet survey, touted as the first of its kind, […]

The New York Times:
We are entering an age governed by changes in leisure patterns. Workplaces and businesses will evolve to accommodate and capitalize on the 77 million baby boomers who will, in increasing numbers, have excess time on their hands.
Recently, I came across the work of Alison Link, whose work with people who are incarcerated […]

Houston Chronicle:
Q: I’m an early baby boomer and am thinking about leaving my corporate job to open a business of my own. Do you have any advice?
A: You are not alone. Many of America’s 77 million baby boomers contemplating retirement are finding that slowing down is the last thing they want to do.
They’re seeking outlets […]

reveries.com:
Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow has a new book that outlines the demographic differences between young adults today and his own generation. His own generation would be the baby boomers, and Dr. Wuthnow says he was inspired to write “After the Baby Boomers” by his own children, who are in their 20s and 30s.
The key differences […]

The Wall Street Journal:
Joseph Coughlin describes his work as “trying to get people to ‘age cool.’ ” More specifically, as director of AgeLab, a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is pushing advances in transportation, health care and housing off drawing boards and into older adults’ lives.
And he can’t do it quickly […]