Japan’s shift toward a super-aged society is being fueled by a combination of demographic factors. These include declining marriage and fertility rates and increases in life expectancy enabled by advances...
Cities and countries the world over are at the cusp of epochal global trends whose impacts are likely to be more intense and more far-reaching than those of similar trends in the past. The simultaneity...
The aging of the population and the increase in single-person households has led to lower economic status among older persons in Seoul, which will likely continue to decline in the future. Making Seoul...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the first pandemic since the world’s population consisted of more people aged over 65 than under five. COVID-19 fatality rises sharply with age: over 95 percent of...