Dementia Innovation Readiness Index 2020: 30 Global Cities released by the Global Coalition of Ageing, Alzheimer’s Disease International and the Lien Foundation SYDNEY – 8 October, 2020: Sydney has been ranked eighth in dementia innovation out of 30 global cities according to a new report released today by the Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA), Alzheimer’s Disease…

Excerpt: Two global trends are on a collision course to upend decades of medical progress and health outcomes: Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, and our rapidly aging society. Two global trends are on a collision course to upend decades of medical progress and health outcomes: Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, and our rapidly aging society.   The…

As we ring in 2023, the Global Coalition on Aging recalls four game changers for our global aging society during the seminal healthy aging year of 2022. 1. The Japanese government – with average longevity reaching 85 this year and, more notably, tilting rapidly towards 40% of its population being over 60 by the end…

The world’s population reached 8bn people on Tuesday and will hit 9bn in 15 years as it experiences an unprecedented surge in the number of older people, according to the latest UN data. The global fertility rate has more than halved since the 1950s to 2.3 births per woman. With mortality also falling, the number of people aged 65 and over is expected to rise from 783mn in 2022 to 1bn by 2030 and reach 1.4bn by 2043, the UN population data revealed.

As India struggles with the growing Omicron wave of COVID-19, another pandemic is gathering force that could someday be equally lethal. While India — and the rest of the world — was caught flat-footed by COVID-19, there is still time to prepare for this looming public health threat, if political and healthcare leaders act now.