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Old age

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

Labour force participation among older adults in India

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 Aparajita Chattopadhyay and David E. Bloom
India, Old age, population ageing, Work

India’s economic sector faces a reckoning with its ageing population. Aparajita Chattopadhyay and David E. Bloom‘s analysis, based on the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), indicates that health is … Read more

Health and mortality

Late-career employment trajectories and postretirement mortality among Italian retirees

December 19, 2022 Benedetta Scotti
Health, italy, Mortality, Old age, Retirement, Work

Benedetta Scotti1 examines the relationship between late-career trajectories and post-retirement mortality in Italy. She finds that exposure to employment instability in later working life, an increasingly prevalent phenomenon in many … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

The impact of migration on the working age population at local level

August 20, 2022May 16, 2022 Daniela Ghio, Anne Goujon and Natale Fabrizio
Europe, immigrant, immigration, Old age, population ageing, Work

Ageing occupies the forefront of the social and economic policy debate in the European Union (EU). However, ageing patterns differ considerably across EU territories because of distinctive demographic and spatial … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

An eBook about older people across different welfare regimes

August 20, 2022December 20, 2021 N-IUSSP
ageing, Caregiving, e-book, Health, niussp e-book, Old age, population ageing, Retirement

Bruno Arpino edits the first N-IUSSP e-book, reporting the main results of an international research project that has just come to an end: “Care, retirement & wellbeing of older people … Read more

eBooks

Care, retirement & wellbeing of older people across different welfare regimes

February 2, 2022December 20, 2021 N-IUSSP
aeging, Caregiving, e-book, Health, niussp e-book, Old age, Retirement
Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

Educating children in India may help keep their parents healthy

October 25, 2021 Berenike Thoma and Jan-Walter De Neve
Asia, Children, Education, Health, India, Old age

A strong positive association exists between children’s education and parental health in India. Berenike Thoma and Jan-Walter De Neve explain that this positive relationship persists when controlling for a wide … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Swiss, elderly, single, and childless. Happy?

August 20, 2022September 16, 2021 Malgorzata Mikucka
Europe, Old age, population ageing

Around the world, more and more people age without close kin. Contrary to expectations, however, according to Małgorzata Mikucka, this does not reduce their life satisfaction, or at least not … Read more

Health and mortality

Gender and socioeconomic inequalities in health after age 50 in Europe

August 20, 2022September 13, 2021 Damiano Uccheddu, Anne H. Gauthier, Nardi Steverink and Tom Emery
Europe, Health, Old age, population ageing

Does the impact of socioeconomic factors on health after midlife vary among women and men depending on the welfare context? Apparently it does: Damiano Uccheddu, Anne H. Gauthier, Nardi Steverink, … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Towards a better identification of older people at risk of depression

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 Omar Paccagnella
Health, Old age

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in later life. Omar Paccagnella suggests a new approach to classify older individuals into distinct subgroups, based on different combinations of … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Growing old in a post-communist society. Who gets lonely in Poland and when?

September 16, 2021July 19, 2021 Malgorzata Mikucka
Old age, Poland

Małgorzata Mikucka sheds new light on the loneliness of elderly people in Poland, focusing on the events and transitions that trigger this feeling. Weak social ties and a legacy of … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

The transition to late adulthood: past adversities increase frailty

July 12, 2021July 5, 2021 Francesca Zanasi, Gustavo De Santis and Elena Pirani
Health, Old age, Work

Health deteriorates with age, and it can be further worsened by adversities experienced during early adulthood and middle age. On SHARE data, Francesca Zanasi, Gustavo De Santis and Elena Pirani measure … Read more

Families and households

Grandparents looking after grandchildren in England

May 21, 2021March 15, 2021 Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto and Karen Glaser
Family, grandchild, Grandparents, Household, Marriage, Old age

Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto and Karen Glaser find that, in England, most grandmothers and grandfathers provide grandchild care throughout the year to allow parents to undertake paid work. However, … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Health at older ages: childless adults not always worse off than parents

March 14, 2021January 18, 2021 Nekehia T. Quashie, Bruno Arpino, Radoslaw Antczak and Christine A. Mair
Children, Health, Old age

As children are often the main source of support in later life, childless older adults are presumed to have higher risks of poor health compared to parents. Nekehia T. Quashie, … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Does population aging erode democratic support?

March 14, 2021November 23, 2020 Uwe Sunde
ageing, democracy, Mortality, Old age

Individual support for democracy in the population is essential for the stability of democracies. However, not much is known about how demographic change, such as population aging, affects attitudes in … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Socioeconomic differences in life satisfaction and longevity in Spain

May 20, 2021November 16, 2020 Aïda Solé-Auró and Mariona Lozano
Health, Old age, population

Aïda Solé-Auró and Mariona Lozano present data on “satisfied life expectancy” by gender and educational level in Spain. One of their somewhat paradoxical findings is that even though Spaniards are … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

On the (changing) relationship between life expectancy and lifespan inequality

June 7, 2021June 1, 2020 José Manuel Aburto, Ginevra Floridi and Ella Fegitz
Europe, Mortality, Old age

Life expectancy at birth is widely employed to measure longevity. However, as José Manuel Aburto, Ginevra Floridi and Ella Fegitz argue, another complementary dimension of great relevance in health research … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Demographic change and aging without family: a global perspective

August 20, 2022December 9, 2019 Rachel Margolis and Ashton M. Verdery
Old age, population ageing, world

Some older adults do not have spouses or biological children, i.e. the types of family members who are most likely to provide help in case of need. Rachel Margolis and … Read more

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

Mitigating the labour market consequences of population ageing in the EU

August 20, 2022October 14, 2019 Guillaume Marois, Patrick Sabourin and Alain Bélanger
Europe, Migration, Old age, population ageing, Work

Population ageing is inevitable, but its negative consequences on the future labour force of the European Union, up to 2060, could be greatly attenuated if women and immigrants were more … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Work stress among older employees in Germany: effects on health and retirement age

June 7, 2021May 6, 2019 Jana Mäcken
Europe, Health, Old age, Work

One way to tackle population ageing and its negative consequences on pension systems is to increase the official retirement age. However, most employees retire earlier than “expected”. Jana Mäcken tests the … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Contrasting trends in centenarian lifespans in Denmark and Sweden

March 10, 2021November 12, 2018 Anthony Medford
Europe, Mortality, Old age

While the mean ages at death for Danish and Swedish centenarians were relatively constant at around 102 years for the cohorts born between 1870 and 1904, Anthony Medford shows that … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Increasing (but insufficient?) optimism about future life expectancy

March 10, 2021October 15, 2018 Nico Keilman
Demography, Mortality, Old age

Official demographic forecasts have always been too timid about future increases in life expectancy, and according to Nico Keilman, continue to be so even today. There are reasons for this … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Ageing without children in Thailand: bad for mental health?

August 20, 2022September 17, 2018 Nekehia T. Quashie and Wiraporn Pothisiri
ageing, Asia, Fertility, immigration, Migration, Old age, population ageing

Declining fertility and increasing migration are contributing to growing shares of older Thais who will age with few children, or none at all, or whose children live far away.Quashie and … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

New data on life expectancy and standard of living in France

March 9, 2021June 4, 2018 Nathalie Blanpain
inequality, Mortality, Old age

Surprising as it may seem, even in developed countries, systematic and large differences in survival exist between rich and poor populations. In France, for instance, Nathalie Blanpain tells us that … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Increasing longevity may counterbalance the negative effects of reproductive aging

March 8, 2021May 14, 2018 Kieron Barclay
Europe, Old age, Reproduction

Previous research has indicated that being born to older parents is detrimental for offspring longevity. However, the secular trend of increasing longevity may moderate or even reverse any potential negative … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Advanced maternal age and low birth weight

March 8, 2021May 7, 2018 Alice Goisis
Old age, Reproduction, Women

The negative association between advanced maternal age and low birth weight has become progressively weaker over time in the UK (between 1958-2001). This pattern, as Alice Goisis explains, is partly … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Healthy grandparenthood: how long is it, and how has it changed?

June 10, 2021April 9, 2018 Rachel Margolis and Laura Wright
Americas, Grandparents, Old age

In North America, grandparents live for longer now than in the past, and spend more years in good health, despite being older. However, Rachel Margolis and Laura Wright also find … Read more

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

How long do older Americans work?

March 14, 2021April 2, 2018 Christian Dudel and Mikko Myrskylä
Americas, Old age, Welfare, Work

Christian Dudel and Mikko Myrskylä study how the length of working life has developed in the U.S. since the early 1990s. While overall life expectancy has increased, there has been … Read more

Health and mortality

Summertime, and the livin’ is easy … and longer

March 8, 2021February 26, 2018 Tina Ho and Andrew Noymer
Americas, Demography, Mortality, Old age

“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy” — so begins one of the most famous American songs, Summertime from the Gershwin brothers’ Porgy and Bess. Is the living really easier in … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Retirement timing and grandparenthood in Sweden

March 8, 2021February 19, 2018 Linda Kridahl
Europe, Old age, Welfare, Work

In most Western European countries, retiring and entering grandparenthood are relatively parallel events for most individuals, with grandparenthood often occurring a few years before retirement (Leopold and Lechner, 2015).Does being … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Dementia risk on the rise as old-age life expectancy increases

March 8, 2021January 15, 2018 Ezra Fishman
Americas, Health, Old age

As America’s population ages, the number of Americans with dementia is increasing. Because people with dementia often need help with activities of daily living, the cost of caring for a … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

How comparable are self-reported health data on the older population in Europe?

March 5, 2021April 10, 2017 Katherine Keenan, Else Foverskov and Emily Grundy
Europe, Health, Old age, population

Europe has large projected increases in the proportion of older people in the population (United Nations 2013). Therefore, high quality, representative longitudinal data on the older European population are essential … Read more

Health and mortality

Health effects of working beyond State Pension Age in England

March 4, 2021January 30, 2017 Giorgio Di Gessa, Laurie M Corna, Loretta Platts, Diana Worts, Peggy McDonough, Amanda Sacker, Debora Price and Karen Glaser
Health, Old age, Work

Paid work in adulthood is generally considered beneficial for physical and psychological health and well-being (Woodell and Burton 2006) but its effects at older ages are unclear. Research on work … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

International differences in life expectancy gains (and in their cost)

March 4, 2021January 23, 2017 Nick Parr, Jackie Li and Leonie Tickle
Demography, Mortality, Old age

Ongoing increases in life expectancies may slow the growth of living standards in developed countries. One reason for this is that reductions in mortality rates, which these days are generally … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

The 21st century – the century of centenarians

March 4, 2021November 21, 2016 George W Leeson
ageing, Europe, Mortality, Old age

The emergence of large numbers of centenarians has accompanied the ageing of our populations. The number of people aged 100 years and over in England and Wales, for example, increased … Read more

Graphics

Did you know?

April 26, 2021November 14, 2016 N-IUSSP
aeging, graphics, Old age, Work

Older persons in middle-income countries often consume less than working-age adults, whereas in high-income countries, older persons tend to consume more than working-age adults, on average. Levels of consumption per … Read more

Graphics

Did you know?

April 26, 2021October 17, 2016 N-IUSSP
aeging, graphics, Old age, population, population growth, world

Two thirds of the world’s older persons live in the developing regions and their numbers are growing faster there than in the developed regions. World Population Ageing Report

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Demographic data are inadequate for many older Africans

March 4, 2021October 17, 2016 Ernestina Coast and Sara Randall
Africa, ageing, Old age, population

Why do we need better data on older people? To accurately understand population change – its scale, speed, determinants and variants – we need accurate data on the age of … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

The shrinking population of Europe, ageing and productivity

August 20, 2022October 10, 2016 Massimo Livi Bacci
Europe, Old age, population, population ageing

Europe’s population is bound to shrink before 2050: according to the latest revision (2015, medium variant) of the UN (2015) projections, it will decline by 4.5% (31 million) between 2015 … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

Loneliness among seniors in Europe. Far higher risk in the East

March 4, 2021October 3, 2016 Thomas Hansen and Britt Slagsvold
aging, Demography, Old age, population

Loneliness is widely perceived as a problem of old age, as part of “normal” aging. Research shows, however, that only 5 to 15% of adults aged 60–80 report frequent feelings … Read more

Video

Moving within Europe – Which country will pay my old-age pension?

April 20, 2021May 16, 2016 N-IUSSP
aeging, Europe, Old age, video

What will happen to your old-age pension if you live and work in more than one country of the European Union or in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland? What happens … Read more

Graphics

Did you know

April 20, 2021May 16, 2016 N-IUSSP
aeging, graphics, Old age, world

As the average life span expands, if threshold ages, including the “normal” retirement age, are not properly adjusted the need for intergenerational transfers increases. Threshold ages can be raised in … Read more

Health and mortality

Infectious diseases in ageing populations: a neglected cause of mortality?

August 20, 2022March 21, 2016 Aline Désesquelles, Elena Demuru, Marilena Pappagallo, Luisa Frova, France Meslé and Viviana Egidi
Health, Mortality, Old age, population ageing

In countries with high life expectancies, death is predominantly the consequence of cancers and diseases of the circulatory system. Yet, infectious diseases have not disappeared from public health concerns, and … Read more

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

An Almost Ideal Pension System for Europe (and other countries)

March 3, 2021February 29, 2016 Gustavo De Santis
Old age, Pensions

Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension systems are frequent in OECD countries, usually in combination with some form of funding (OECD 2014, 2015), and they have been very extensively studied. But their reputation … Read more

Individual and population ageing, age structure

How old do you feel? It depends on whether you have grandchildren

March 3, 2021February 22, 2016 Valeria Bordone and Bruno Arpino
grandchildren, Old age

The idea of a static measure of age is changing (Christensen et al., 2009; Sanderson & Scherbov, 2013). The concept of ageing is not independent of time and place, and … Read more

Health and mortality

Progression de l’espérance de vie: un champ encore grand ouvert mais non sans limite

March 3, 2021January 25, 2016 France Meslé and Jacques Vallin
Health, Mortality, Old age

Si Jeanne Calment a vécu un peu plus de 122 ans et que rien n’indique clairement que ce record mondial soit une limite infranchissable, il est fort probable qu’une telle … Read more

Health and mortality

La limite de la vie humaine

March 3, 2021January 11, 2016 Jacques Vallin
Health, Mortality, Old age

La doyenne de l’humanité, la française Jeanne Calment est décédée en 1997 à 122 ans et 5 mois. Bien que dûment vérifié et homologué par le groupe international de recherche … Read more

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