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The aging of the world population is expected to accelerate in the coming decades, which will likely produce bad outcomes for the stock market, JPMorgan strategists say.
The Global Ageing Survey, exploring attitudes, expectations, and behaviours towards later life and retirement, directed by George Leeson, and covering 44,000 people aged 40–80 in 24 countries from across the globe, has revealed that many people are now fully aware of the ageing of the world's population and the implications that it will have ...
Finland bucks the trend, the country has a rapidly aging population while continuing to rank as the happiest in the world. Social trust and freedom play an important role, as does a sense of ...
Since the early 2000s Finland has had a wide ranging discussion and debate on how to solve the oncoming problems of an ageing population, shrinking work-age population and an increased strain to the social and healthcare services caused by the ageing population, who on average use much more healthcare services than the working-age population. [43]
The shifting racial makeup of the US population may also play a role in the rise of dementia cases, the researchers said, with higher-risk minority groups expected to comprise more than half of ...
Several health problems become more prevalent as people get older. These include mental health problems as well as physical health problems, especially dementia. Even so, it has been estimated that population ageing only explains 0.2 percentage points of the annual growth rate in medical spending of 4.3 percent since 1970.
People are living longer lives, but not healthier ones—and there are four main reasons why.. That was the assertion of Roy Gori—president and CEO of Manulife, Canada’s largest insurance ...
An underlying common factor and root cause of many of human rights violations experienced by older persons, along with its ubiquitous, prevalent, and surreptitious nature, is ageism. [5] Ageism, as defined by the World Health Organization, refers to the stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination towards others or oneself based on age. [6]