June 2021
17Jun

Do adverse health shock s induce myopic financial planning?

By Jialu L. Streeter Health and financial planning have both been found to be crucial to long-term financial stability. However, the impact of a health shock on financial plan-ning horizon was not directly tested. This article traces the trajectories of the financial planning horizon before and after the occurrence of work-limitinghealth shocks, using longitudinal panel data from the Health and RetirementStudy. Results show that, during the 10 years following a health shock, individ-uals are 20 to 39% more likely to...

June 17, 2021
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March 2021
22Mar

US. Covid-19 Makes Racial And Class Status Longevity Gaps Worse

Everyone knows the poor die sooner than the rich. Some humans can live past 90, but many don’t have access to the health and wealth that lets humans live a normal human life span. In the last 20 years, all longevity gains for Americans have gone to those in the upper half of the income distribution. Boston University researchers Jacob Bor, Gregory Cohen and Sandro Galea found that income and education gaps in life expectancy widened during the period 1980–2014....

March 22, 2021
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December 2020

11Dec

Intergenerational Mobility of Health in India and Its Implications to Elderly Care

By E. Sownthara Rajan To understand the effect of education of children as an intervention to improve elderly health and suggest the sector of elderly who needs state support. This finding will help in locating a sector of elderly where the targeted geriatric care and elderly support can be provided. There is a prevalent conversation in academic literature about growing elderly population around the world which is estimated will be 22 per cent of the world population by 2050...

December 11, 2020
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October 2020

20Oct

Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index 2020

By Merced CFA Institute What makes a world-class pension system in 2020? Pension systems around the world are facing additional pressures in 2020. The widespread economic impact due to COVID-19 has had both immediate and long-term implications for retirees. Additionally, increasing life expectancies and rising pressure on public resources to support the health and welfare of older citizens will affect how citizens around the world will retire in the mid to long-term. “The economic recession caused by...

October 20, 2020
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08Oct

What Does Retirement Look Like in a Pandemic?

David Jarmul and his wife, Champa, long envisioned what their retirement would look like. After returning from a two-year Peace Corps stint in Moldova in 2018, the couple, both 67, planned extensive travel, including trips to the Baltics, West Africa and Sri Lanka. “Travel is our passion — it’s what we love to do,” said Mr. Jarmul, who retired in 2015 as head of news and communications for Duke University. For now, the two are living a Covid-19 retirement...

October 8, 2020
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September 2020

14Sep

Exploring the health-wealth connection

The song “God Part II” on the album “Rattle and Hum” by U2 has the lyrics: “The rich get healthy, while the sick stay poor.” Bono sung those words in 1988. Since then, a number of researchers have tackled what exactly is the link between wealth and health, and why. At first glance, one would expect a simple explanation: people with more money live longer. Clearly such a relationship cannot be strictly linear, as people don’t fall dead if...

September 14, 2020
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July 2020

31Jul

A global study on creating inclusive environments for ageing populations Shifting demographics

By The Economist Intelligence Unit People today are typically living to increasingly older ages. This, however, has created challenges in providing health and social services for burgeoning older populations and governments across the globe have been slow to react. What counts now is how societies can maximise this opportunity and provide efective, inclusive environments in which to age.1 This report from The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is based on findings from the “Scaling Healthy ageing, Inclusive environments and...

July 31, 2020
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30Jul

Healthy Ageing & Financial Security

By The Economist Intelligence Unit. A 2020 Economist intelligence Unit Study considers policy efforts to addres active and Inclusive ageing in the 19 countries of the G20, based on a custom index that benchmarks each country´s performance across different aspects, including healthy ageing, inclusive environments and fi nance security practices and policies. Source: Ageing Shift

July 30, 2020
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30Jul

Healthy Ageing & Financial Security

By The Economist Intelligence Unit. A 2020 Economist intelligence Unit Study considers policy efforts to addres active and Inclusive ageing in the 19 countries of the G20, based on a custom index that benchmarks each country´s performance across different aspects, including healthy ageing, inclusive environments and fi nance security practices and policies. Source: Ageing Shift

July 30, 2020
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30Jul

Health and Aging Before and After Retirement

By Ana Abeliansky, Holger Strulik In this paper, we investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a frailty index for elderly men and women from 10 European countries. We classify occupation by low vs. high education, blue vs. white collar color, and by high vs. low physical or psychosocial job burden. Controlling for individual fixed effects,...

July 30, 2020
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