An answer is urgently needed. Soon, for the first time in human history, the aged will outnumber the young and, although these elders are living longer and healthier than ever, the eventual loss of their contributions due to age-related disease and the costs of treatment set the stage for global economic catastrophe. Learn more…  [...]

The Milken Institute has compiled one of the most comprehensive descriptions of the true nature of the cost of the chronic diseases of aging to the U.S. economy. With figures from 2003, the institute shows a yearly total cost of 1.3 trillion dollars in direct and indirect costs stating “reasonable improvements in preventing and managing [...]

Produced by the National Institute on Aging of the U.S. National Insitutes of Health, the Forward of this important work reads: “…the significance of population aging and its global implications have yet to be fully appreciated. There is a need to raise awareness …[of] the importance of rigorous cross-national scientific research and policy dialogue that [...]

Health care overwhelms other savings in an e-brief from the C.D. Howe Institute which details how the increase in elderly and their care over the coming decades, and decrease in younger people, represent an implicit liability of 1.5 trillion dollars for the Canadian economy.

The synopsis of this paper by Richard Jackson and Neil Howe of The Center for Strategic & International Studies reads “By 2040 there will be 400 million Chinese elders—which is more than the total current population of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the UK combined….China must take decisive steps to prepare for its coming age [...]

Harvard International Review – Peter G. Peterson, author of the seminal work on global aging, “A Gray Dawn”, states in this that “Not only are health costs rising faster than GDP, but the elderly consume three to five times more health-care services per capita than younger people…and it is precisely the population of the oldest [...]