But if you live into old age, what kind of life do you hope to have? Their demographic wave transformed schools, workplaces, housing, politics, and now they are redefining old age – but not in the way one might hope. W. Edwards Deming was a statistician who helped transform modern manufacturing by asking managers to stop guessing and start measuring. Today, we have boatloads of data, and looking at it should make us think. The boomers are now the first to learn the consequences of modern lifestyles in old age.