As many as half of 5-year-olds in the United States can now expect to live to 100, a population that is projected to swell in the decades ahead. Longer lifespans don’t guarantee a financially secure later life, however. If anything, in the absence of significant planning, extreme longevity may make financial security harder to attain.

The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) today released a startling new paper, Wonder Drugs vs. Superbugs: The 21st Century Battle to Save 10 Million Lives a Year, which clearly lays out the global threat posed by rising drug resistance, widely known as antimicrobial resistance or AMR, and accompanying lack of effective new drugs.

The China Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (CAGG) hosted the seventh annual Silver Economy & Health Wealth Forum in Hainan Province. Michael Hodin, delivered his speech virtually, celebrating GCOA’s longstanding partnership with CAGG and highlighting the challenges and opportunities for China of healthy aging and the silver economy. GCOA was the official international partner of…

(Release translated from the original Chinese) Beijing, CHINA (January 26, 2022) – In 2022, China will enter the deep aging society (with more than 14% of total population over the age of 65). At the same time, China will enter a new period of common prosperity. China’s GDP per capita exceeded US $10,000, the urbanization…

The call by Messrs Mario Draghi and Emmanuel Macron for a new growth strategy under France’s EU presidency should be guided by three principles aligned with their point about “demographic evolutions changing the structure of our societies” (Opinion, December 24).