Not directly disability-related, but I’ve posted about boomers and hearing loss and other disabilities on this blog in the past and I got a kick out this article …. from AARP the Magazine on the first boomer!

Born Identity
By Sarah Mahoney, November 2007
She’s America’s first boomer, and she’s eligible for Social Security

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When Kathleen Casey-Kirschling receives her very first Social Security check in February, it’s a good bet the press will be all over her. As the world’s first official baby boomer—a distinction she earned by being born one second after midnight, January 1, 1946—she’s used to the attention. [continued…]

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