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  1. Retirement Preparations in a New Age of Self-Employment

    This first-of-its-kind report assesses the retirement outlook of self-employed people around the world. Based on a survey of 1,600 people across 15 countries, this new report finds that the self-employed have a flexible vision of retirement and face unique challenges in terms of retirement planning.

  2. World Economic Forum Transformation Maps

    GCOA partnered with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to co-create Transformation Maps on the topic of aging. WEF’s new Transformation Maps help users to explore and make sense of the complex and interlinked forces that are transforming economies, industries, and global issues. The Transformation Maps allows users to visualize and understand more than 120 topics and the connections and…

  3. Aegon Retirement Readiness Survey

    The seventh annual Aegon Retirement Readiness Survey draws on findings from workers and retirees from 15 countries spanning Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. The 2018 report finds that the “social contract” for retirement is crumbling, and almost half of today’s workers and retirees believe that future generations of retirees will be worse off. The…

  4. Longevity Economics: Leveraging the Advantages of an Aging Society

    According to this new report from the Gerontological Society of America and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, older Americans — growing in numbers and diversity — will be key to the nation’s future economic health, but the public and private sectors must adapt to these demographic realities. The report aims to stimulate a policy conversation on…

  5. Remote Care and AI Initiative

    In October 2017, GCOA launched the Remote Care Delivery initiative, which aims to leverage and mobilize cross-sector expertise to advance the uptake of RCD as a driver of healthy, active, and productive aging, and to encourage action at the global policy level. RCD includes videoconferencing with healthcare providers, tablet-based patient education, and devices that can prompt and track diet,…

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