Just about everything that was predicted five years ago about the Baby Boom generation has turned out to be true. There have also been some surprises, particularly on health issues.

Not that it really matters, but the first Baby Boomer is said to be a woman by the name of Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, born one second after midnight on January 1, 1946, in Philadelphia, Penn. She weighed seven pounds, five ounces, at birth. She married in 1966, had two daughters and earned her living as a 7th grade school teacher. She divorced in 1985 but has since remarried. Currently, she lives in Cherry Hill, N.J., near her two daughters and five grandchildren.

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The number of Californians with Alzheimer's disease will nearly double to 1.1 million over the next two decades because of aging baby boomers, public health officials and the state Alzheimer's Association said in a report yesterday.

The projection for San Diego County is equally staggering – from 50,000 diagnosed cases today to 92,804 by 2030.

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