The world's population is always of great interest to the public, but our attention seems to be drawn towards its size rather than its age. According to the United Nations, the world's population is ...

TO A LOCAL CENTER ON AGING AND STATE OFFICIALS. OFTEN WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THIS CHANGING AND SHIFTING DEMOGRAPHIC, YOU KNOW, OUR POPULATION IS GETTING OLDER. IT’S OFTEN REFERENCED WITH FEAR. THE ...

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Novel research shows that in approximately one third of countries and territories worldwide, population aging was the largest contributor to the growing burden of musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 ...

(opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) Copy Ageing Horizons, a peer-reviewed journal from the University of Oxford’s Institute of Population ...

Across the world, water scarcity is emerging as one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Climate change is pushing rivers and aquifers into unprecedented extremes, droughts and floods ...

Although Silicon Valley has a reputation for attracting young, tech-savvy workers, the cycle may no longer be true as statistics point toward older adults shifting the dynamic and the area being ...

The so-called “silver tsunami” — referring to some kind of “rush” of older people into certain places, out of the workforce or to their housing stock, depending on who you talk to — has larger ...