How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World
The most powerful countries have benefited from large work forces for decades. What happens when they retire?
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The most powerful countries have benefited from large work forces for decades. What happens when they retire?
Researchers suggest that strategies to cope with higher temperatures aren’t keeping pace with global warming.
The health conditions of two of Italy’s most prominent octogenarians have in recent years often kept the country in suspense.
The country’s supply of nursing home beds has not kept pace with its rapidly aging population, leading some families to seek unlicensed alternatives.
The shots would be the first vaccines available against a respiratory virus that kills thousands and leads to many more hospitalizations each year.
Older Americans and those with weakened immune systems, groups still particularly vulnerable to the virus, may receive additional shots of the reformulated vaccine, federal officials said.
The Western world’s oldest population is facing a crisis of caregivers. Some are looking for a little helping, plastic, hand.
Yusuke Narita says he is mainly addressing a growing effort to revamp Japan’s age-based hierarchies. Still, he has pushed the country’s hottest button.
Much of rural South Korea has seen its population rapidly decline and age. For some communities off the coast, doctors traveling by boat have become a lifeline for the old and sick.