'senior generation' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the generation of people that is older than the current generation, usually referring to the generation of parents and grandparents of today's youth. For example: The senior generation has always been a source of wisdom and guidance.
But for blacks, these hurdles were cleared almost within the lifetime of today's senior generation on Wall Street.
Asia and the Middle East, meanwhile, have a more paternalistic tradition, with the senior generation still having a lot of influence over their children's career choices.
But for many older people and their carers, the narrative about a well-off senior generation never having had it so good clearly rings hollow.
One of these teams includes three of the most highly respected New York architects of the senior generation: Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman and Charles Gwathmey.
Or perhaps it is just one development: the simultaneous flowering of a middle and a senior generation of world-class filmmakers.
Jonathan Gardner, a senior (Generation X) economist at Willis Towers Watson, one of the world's largest insurance brokers and pension advisory services, said the retired are hoovering up so much cash there is no money left for salary increases.
It is also much less of a showcase (or bank vault, as the case may be) for the middle and senior generations of British actors.
This kind of asocial tradition is now being translated by senior generations to their children.
The key features of filial piety were a total submission of the will of adult children to that of senior generations.
Of course, we in the senior generations can't just stick our heads in the sand, waiting for Gen Y to fly in Superman-style to save the day.
The underlying hypothesis was that the need for healthcare rationing is more acceptable to the younger generations than senior generations.
