Aging Population Poses Global Challenges
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The fight over Social Security marks only the beginning of a national debate over the cost of a graying society -- and the inevitable reallocation of resources that is sure to produce winners and losers, in the United States and around the world
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NEW YORK  - A new finding may explain how  stress could ultimately lead to premature aging.
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While reproductive planning and women&#39;s equality have improved substantially over the past decade, says a United Nations report, world population will increase from 6.4 billion today to 8.9 billion by 2050, with the 50 poorest countries tripling in
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The Census Bureau says the population of those 65 and older will increase more rapidly in the West than in any other area of the country. While retirees settle in, states are figuring out how to keep up with an aging population. Will there be enough doctors and nurses? Hospitals and nursing homes? Will housing be affordable?
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The latest scientific news is about fighting aging, heart disease, and cancer.
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All of the people killed, and many of the thousands left homeless, by this weekâs earthquake in Japan were older than 65, reflecting the rising vulnerability of one of the worldâs most rapidly aging societies.
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Keeping old people in good shape is one of the biggest challenges facing the health sector with the number of people aged 60 and above expected to top one billion by 2025, the World Health Organisation warned.
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The world is heading for wildly uneven population swings in the next 45 years, with many rich countries &quot;downsizing&quot; during a period in which almost all developing nations will grow at breakneck speed, according to a comprehensive report by leading US ...
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Cancer researchers warned Monday that the number of elderly cancer patients would likely double from 2000 to 2030, creating &quot;huge challenges&quot; to healthcare systems worldwide.
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BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhuanet,By Quan Xiaoshu ) -- China is aging. According to statistics, citizens aged 60 and about account for nearly 11 percent of its 1.3 billion people.
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People in the developed world today are taller and more robust than their great-great-grandparents ever imagined, and not just because of better medicine, a researcher says.
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Scientists have been preaching the benefits of mental exercise to seniors for years, but a new study may be the clincher that some people in their golden years have been waiting for.
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WASHINGTON - Japan, Germany and many other large industrialized countries face long-term population slowdowns or declines as more young adults have fewer children or delay child-rearing, demographers say.    While the world's population is expected to increase by almost 50 percent by 2050, Japan could lose 20 percent of its population over the next half-century, according to data released Tuesday by the private Population Reference Bureau...
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Leading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, research suggests.
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As technologically advanced as our country is today, it&#39;s both frustrating and heartbreaking that millions of Americans of all ages and across all social, cultural and ethnic groups are still battling life-threatening and debilitating diseases.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Medical breakthroughs hold   out the prospect of living longer and healthier lives, with   current life span norms set to be turned on their head, an   expert on anti-ageing said on Friday.
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China and other developing countries are demanding a bigger say in the aging institutions that superintend the world economy.