Baby Boomers and North Carolina’s Demographic Shift 

Division of Aging

N.C. Department of Health and

Human Services

July 1998

How does the future look?

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What’s in this presentation?

1. A brief look at the aging of our population
• Current older adults
• Population shift

2. Baby boomers as the age wave of the future
• Why was there a boom?
• Demographics
• Economics
• Health and long-term care
• Other issues to be considered

3. Questions for public discussion and response