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wealth (e.g. inheritances) (Morgan & Scott, 2007; Wilhelm, 2001). Given thattherapeutic services largely operate either directly (client) or indirectly (government/healthcare subsidy) on a user pay system, it is reasonable to conclude that individualswith the greatest financial resource will be better able to pay for post-retirementcounselling services than their less resourced age counterparts. Thus, the need toaccumulate sufficient financial reserves in order to pay for post-retirement healthand wellness services is a pertinent consideration for baby boomers contemplatingeconomic relocation/migration.Partly in response to the migration desires of an increasingly affluence-orientatedworkforce, many countries have instituted strict migration policies. These policies, inturn, have shaped population demographics. For example, Australia presently has amulticultural migration policy. Recent figures from the Australian Bureau ofStatistics (2007a) reveal that the percentage of migrants entering Australia fromnon-Western countries such as Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq have over the last 10years respectively increased on average by 27%, 13%, and 10%. However, thismulticultural approach to migration has not always been in force. Australia formerlypursued a white-only migration policy (see Jupp, 2002; Windschuttle, 2004). Underthis policy, Australia experienced a post WWII influx of over 200,000 migrants(mainly from Britain) between the years 1947 and 1950 (Australian Government,2007). This migration boom was followed by a baby boom. During the boom (19461961) in excess of four million births were recorded, with Western Australia (WA)recording the highest rates (Australian Bureau Statistics, 2007b). One consequenceof the Australian government’s former attempts at engineering the country’spopulation demographics is that the state of WA now has an unusually large cohortof aging baby boomers.Inspired by the experience of migrating to Western Australia, one of the mostisolated metropolitan enclaves of Western culture, the three mature-aged authors ofthis paper explore the issues of sibling loss and grief which are now confronting theaging cohort of baby boomers as they enter into their retirement years, in manyinstances separated from their extended families. Although the issues raised in thisarticle are not formulated on original research data but rather originate from theauthors’ collective experience of sibling loss and their anecdotal observations ofclinical practice in WA, it is reasonable to presume that these accounts will provideinsights for other researchers contemplating the future gero-counselling needs of thebaby boomer generational cohort. With this aim in mind, the paper opens with anexamination of the theoretical framework underpinning the current understandingof sibling loss and grief issues. Given that Woodrow (2007, p. 16) contends theconcept of loss ‘presupposes a prior attachment’, the paper continues with anexamination of attachment theory and its relevance to sibling bonding (see Adams,Corr, Davies, & Deveau, 1999; Godfrey, 2002; Gold, 1987; Hays et al., 1997; Hogan& DeSantis, 1996; Murray, 1999, 2000). The contention that advances in electronictechnology (e.g. cell-phone text messaging, email) may fulfil a substantial supportrole in the lives of distance-separated baby boomer sibling dyads as they move intoretirement is subsequently explored. Finally, avenues for future research aresuggested in the discussion section.
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