Let me further elaborate on this topic by pointing out an extremely foolish article from ciol.com. Here's a quote if you need a laugh: "Tracing the industry trends in the US, he said, "It is predicted that the US would face the worst ever labor shortage in 2008, largely because the baby boomer generation which makes up for around 60 million of the US population, would retire by then."" (http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2004/104071503.asp). Talk about waiting for dead men's shoes!
The actual baby boom, by most accounts, spanned the post war births from 1946 to 1964. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer) How many of us are there? Around 76 million, and our leading edge is starting to approach traditional retirement age, though tradition has never meant anything to us.
Not only did we reinvent adolescence, adulthood, and parenthood, we are now reinventing the aging process. We are remaining healthy, energetic, enthusiastic and much more youthfull than past generations tended to be. We are continuing our educations far into what India and China would consider old age.
As for me, I'm getting great results from a fitness program, am in great health, am a (multiple) property owner, an IT manager, still very much growing and progressing in my field, and I finished a Master's (with a dual major) in my field at the age of 52. And, here's the really bad news for foreign hopefulls who'd like to unseat us all - I'm not a superstar boomer, I'm merely typical.
I know some countries want us to step down and relinquish our jobs, but I think that at least a majority of the 76 million of us might have something to say about that.