From Asia to the Americas, populations are getting older—a trend that is likely to continue for decades to come. So far, however, while perhaps acknowledging the existence of this trend, policy makers and business leaders have done little to prepare for it. In many cases, this inaction stems from misconceptions about older workers and consumers. We have identified seven common[Read More…]
While the rapid aging of China’s population is thought to condemn the nation to a dismal future, past policies on education and new policies to improve health and foster internal migration could ease the challenges posed by an older citizenry, according to a new study of the impact of aging on China’s future. By RAND Labor and Population, James P. Smith Distinguished Chair[Read More…]
Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford, Sarah Harper,delivers the Oxford London Lecture 2012 entitled ‘The 21st century the last century of Youth’. Professor Sarah Harper is Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, a multi-disciplinary research unit concerned with the implications of population ageing. Sarah works on globalisation and[Read More…]
How will you live the rest of your life? The timing, power and purpose of maturity are being dramatically re-imagined as a result of increasing longevity, the boomer age wave and a spectrum of new lifestyle choices across adulthood, including health, family, work, housing, leisure, giving and money. In this provocative presentation, recorded at ASA’s 2015 Aging in America Conference,[Read More…]
The Juncker Commission has committed to focus policies on « the key challenges ahead for our economies and for our societies » and to work across portfolios to produce « integrated, well-grounded and well explained initiatives ». One of the challenges identified is « the ageing of our population ». Rapid demographic ageing is not only a major societal challenge (in terms of public budgets, workforce,[Read More…]
We have all seen the numbers before: Over the coming decades, many countries in the developed and developing world alike will significantly age. One particular number to describe this development is the “old-age dependency ratio.” It measures the number of those aged above 65 years (currently defined as old age) as a share of those between 15 to 64 years (currently[Read More…]
Population aging is one of the most global and significant trends in the 21st century. Although each society has different social and economic backgrounds that have resulted in demographic transformation, the older population is growing rapidly in general due to declining fertility rates and rising life expectancy. The Asia-Pacific region is where we witness the most rapid population aging. Because[Read More…]
As far as we know, the origin of the expression « rose-colored glasses » pre-dated Janis Joplin and the flower children of the ’60s and ’70s. But based on how many in their generation – today’s baby boomers – have approached financial planning and personal savings, the phrase is one that boomers took to heart. The future, most boomers believed, will be[Read More…]
Document sans titre Could you present Generations on Line ? This is a web-based software that simplifies the Internet for people over 65 who are afraid of computers. Each screen guides the older person step by step with easy directions into searching the web in 36 languages, very simple email, questions and answers with children, and links to other interesting[Read More…]
