This spring, the American Federation for Aging Research will place its Pearson Fellow with the Global Coalition on Aging. 

Robert Powell, editor of Retirement Daily at The Street, interviews Surya Kolluri, Managing Director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, about industry research conducted on the key life stages of clients in retirement, and the role of the financial planner. 

Your editorial “Japan’s Immigration Harbinger” (Dec. 6) correctly underscores the profound and potentially huge shift in Japan’s immigration policy to address “an aging society and [the related] labor shortage.”

Aging Today’s end-of-year 2018 In Focus section, “Global Aging and the Future of the World Community,” is prescient as it is the perfect set-up to 2019, which heralds the tipping point for the mega-trend of population aging.

Demographic aging is transforming all societies around the world, and this 21stcentury megatrend demands a similar transformation of global health policy. Now and in the coming decades, the World Health Organization can build on efforts like its Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Ageing and Health to apply population aging as a guiding lens for global health policies, particularly those related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).