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How companies are adapting to aging populations around the world with new products, new personnel policies and new marketing tactics. [Charles Wallace – Global Finance, 7 March 2024.] READ MORE

With over 13 million individuals aged 60 and above and fewer than 500,000 newborns recorded last year, Thailand’s demographic landscape is shifting rapidly.  [Pattaya Mail, 20 February [...]

The very steady increase in the share of elders alongside pressing broader socioeconomic challenges gives the government little incentive to prioritize social or economic ageing-related issues on [...]

The world is turning a blind eye to the need to address the profound link between the rapidly ageing population and climate change – leaving older people invisible in debates about how to address [...]

Health trajectories of Portuguese older adults (60 + years old) in a 10-year period and to assess associated sociodemographic, lifestyle factors and multimorbidity status. [David G. Lopes, Nuno [...]

Housing has become unaffordable for most young people in large cities amid the sluggish economic recovery, with 11.58 million college graduates set to enter China’s workforce this year. [Meredith [...]

Population ageing is the defining global trend of our time and demand for long-term care is soaring, but public spending is not keeping pace with demand. [Caritas, 21 June 2023.] READ MORE

There are important, if limited, coping mechanisms to deal with the predicted stagnation or fall in the working-age population that most countries will face sooner or later. [George Magnus [...]

The working-age population in Germany actually peaked at the end of the last century, but the country has managed to stave off demographic decline for some time thanks to the arrival of millions [...]

Governments have promised to tackle the crisis for 25 years, but it’s never an election winner. [Camilla Cavendish – The Financial Times, 9 June 2023.] READ MORE