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Taro Aso’s comments fuel fresh debate on country’s falling birth rate
Ageing workforce prompts focus on ergonomics and tapping expertise of older staff
The technology that's helping production line staff in Germany work into their sixties
Business must overcome demographic challenge in order to sustain output
Industry needs to recognise that ageing is not just a problem, but an opportunity
Increase in productivity vital to combat deep slowdown in economy
Cultural barriers and state inaction prevent society from addressing elderly care needs
Insurance schemes in Germany and Japan show the best response to looking after the elderly
The ‘new old’ are not acting their age, but we’re not adjusting to rising longevity
A ‘longevity industry’ springs up to help people stay active in later life
Longer lifespans mean the ‘sandwich generation’ has company in the middle
PM sets out plan to reform social security amid challenges of ageing population
Study raises concerns over country’s ageing population and mounting debt pile
Demographic change means that policies will have to adapt to an ageing population
Increasing longevity offers not just challenges but opportunities
Martin McKee on UK public health, anti-vaxxers advance, news in briefs
Tokyo is waking up to the huge implications — as well as opportunities — in healthcare, finance, housing and technology of an ageing society
Population pressure is putting an intolerable strain on the public finances
The government must prioritise reform of social care for older people
NHS spending boost threatens to make finances unsustainable, OBR says
Empathy, mortality and ‘happiness U-curves’ can be found amid the angst in three books aimed at forty-somethings
Elderly ignored evacuation calls before disaster that caused more than 200 deaths
Rapid ageing suggests many countries will need to ape Moscow in raising pension ages
Fortysomethings seize power in the west even as septuagenarians retain hold elsewhere
