82 Business View - February 2015
Redefining the
Caring Quotient
Visiting Angels poised to assist amid “silver tsunami”
The statistics, taken as a whole, are staggering.
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that
roughly 8,000 people every single day are reaching 65
years of age, which means that each of the nearly 57.8
million members of the Baby Boom generation – those
born between 1946 and 1964 – will have become se-
nior citizens by the year 2030.
The onset of that “silver tsunami” is already enhancing
the need for all manners of aging-related health care,
including the franchised private duty in-home care
FRANCHISE
