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Towards an Age-Friendly Europe: Covenant on Demographic Change

Towards an Age-Friendly Europe: Covenant on Demographic Change

In 2015, the EU-funded AFE-INNOVNET Thematic Network on innovation for age-friendly environments launched the Covenant on Demographic Change. The Covenant is set to become the new EU-wide association gathering local, regional and national authorities, civil society organisations, universities, and businesses that commit to cooperate and implement evidence-based solutions to support active and healthy ageing as a comprehensive answer to Europe’s demographic[Read More…]

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Barriers to health care increase disease, death risk for rural elderly

Barriers to health care increase disease, death risk for rural elderly

A new study of adults ages 85 or older has found that rural residents have significantly higher levels of chronic disease, take more medications, and die several years earlier than their urban counterparts. The findings were just published in The Journal of Rural Health by researchers from Oregon State University and the Oregon Health & Science University. The research confirms[Read More…]

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Survey Shows Generosity of Time, Money and Skills Peak in Later Life

Survey Shows Generosity of Time, Money and Skills Peak in Later Life

A new Merrill Lynch study reveals a potential giving surge in the United States over the next two decades valued at an estimated $8 trillion, due to the aging baby boomer generation, increasing life expectancy and high rates of giving among retirees. The study, “Giving in Retirement: America’s Longevity Bonus” conducted in partnership with Age Wave, found that with more[Read More…]

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How Well Do You Know Boomers? Counting Down the Top 10 Boomer Myths

How Well Do You Know Boomers? Counting Down the Top 10 Boomer Myths

Open up any newspaper or turn on the television, and you probably hear the term “Baby Boomers” any number of times. The media seems to be obsessed with this generation of people born between 1946-1964, and frequently the headlines make blanket statements about the cohort that paint either a very positive or a very negative picture. Many headlines create myths[Read More…]

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Ageing in China Potential of Silver Economy of China

Ageing in China Potential of Silver Economy of China

China has completed demographic transition and entered the era of population ageing. The number of elderly persons will increase dramatically in the next two to three decades. As the decline of mortality in the 1950s-60s and the decline of fertility since the 1970s went ahead of China’s economic development, the current challenges resulting from demographic changes are also going ahead[Read More…]

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The myth of the baby boomer (Report – Uk)

The myth of the baby boomer (Report – Uk)

A report compiled by the Ready for Ageing Alliance (RAA) seeks to dispel the widely touted myth that there is a uniform group of older people in the UK – the so-called ‘baby boomers’ who are now aged between 55 and 70 – who have benefited at the expense of younger age groups. The claim:the Baby Boomers got a free[Read More…]

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Norway tops the list – Global Agewatch Index 2014

Norway tops the list – Global Agewatch Index 2014

HelpAge International has launched the Global AgeWatch Index 2014 ranking 96 countries according to the social and economic wellbeing of older people. This represents 91 per cent or nine out of ten people over 60 across the world. It measures wellbeing in four key areas: income security, health, personal capability and an enabling environment. What’s new in 2014? Globally Norway[Read More…]

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The oldest Boomers

The oldest Boomers

The MetLife Mature Market Institute (MMI) has conducted numerous studies since 2007 examining Baby Boomers as they have approached and began transitioning into their retirement years. This study takes a deeper look at the oldest Boomers, born in 1946, as they dive head first into retirement. The MMI looked at these oldest Boomers’ work and retirement status, finances and housing,[Read More…]

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Elastic Generation report (UK)

Elastic Generation report (UK)

JWT London has unveiled the Elastic Generation, its pioneering in-depth research into consumers in their 50s and 60s. A research by J. Walter Thompson London Reared during a time of significant social and political change, the Elastic Generation have consistently demonstrated trailblazing behaviour and youthful attitudes unlike any generation before them. True to their name, they have stretched preconceived notions[Read More…]

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Population ageing in Europe

Population ageing in Europe

Europeans are living longer and healthier lives, and subsequent generations can benefit from longer lifespans lived together. This spectacular achievement of European societies is accompanied, however, by fertility rates below replacement levels and, in a remarkably large number of countries, far under that level. As a result, population growth is slowing down while population ageing accelerates. In particular, rapid increases[Read More…]

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