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              Ageing Populations

              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                Mental health
                ‘Sandwich carers’ suffer long mental health toll, study finds

                Research increases scrutiny over levels of state support for adults who look after children and elderly relatives

                Multigenerational family get together at home.
              • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
                Leo Lewis
                Why Japan is the perfect place to turn 50

                A significant birthday feels less so in a country that has become a global pioneer of ageing — for better and for worse

                A group of men and women in a wide-legged stance with their arms up in a grassy park full of trees
              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
                Germany joins EU’s ‘ultra-low’ fertility club

                Europe’s most populous country sees fertility rates fall below crucial threshold of 1.4

              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                Asia-Pacific companies
                Toys R Us Asia celebrates ‘kidult’ Christmas as birth rates in region fall

                Retailer taps nostalgia to sell toys to ageing market and counter falling demand for kids’ products

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              • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
                Demographics and population
                EU births drop to new low as strains on younger generations mount

                Dearth of children expected to heap pressure on state finances

                A newborn baby is cradled by a mother's hands in a hospital.
              • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
                Special Report
                Diversity Leaders

                850 companies ranked; Cisco shines despite Big Tech reserve; Rolls-Royce outperforms counterparts on inclusion scale; Erste Bank rises above politics; Diageo takes measure of its market; Ireland notes ‘diversity disparity’; fund management gender lag

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              • Friday, 18 October, 2024
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                The sun is setting on traditional retirement

                Demographic changes force a rethink, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing

                Illustration of young and old workers as chess pieces on a chess board
              • Monday, 30 September, 2024
                Special ReportFTfm: Pensions
                Japan’s biggest pension fund faces more pressure to deliver

                Changes to GPIF’s investment policies to take on more risk have been lauded — but the country’s system is under strain

              • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
                Pilita Clark
                What, me? Retire? Just because I’m 80?

                Older workers are sticking around and that is no bad thing

                Illustration of an older woman drinking coffee while working at a laptop. A pair of spectacles, some books and a picture of a child are on her desk
              • Friday, 13 September, 2024
                Chinese society
                China to raise retirement age for first time since 1978

                Beijing battles demographic crisis and pressure on pension system by keeping population in workforce for longer

                Two elderly men play Chinese chess at a park in Beijing
              • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
                Camilla Cavendish
                Making old age better is possible — and necessary

                The UK government needs to look abroad for inspiration

                Jonathan McHugh illustration of a younger person’s hand with a butterfly on a string, reaching out to the hand of an elderly person
              • Friday, 30 August, 2024
                Personal Finance
                Reader callout: are you concerned about social care costs?

                Care home costs have been rising steeply

              • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
                Simon Edelsten
                If populations are declining — how can investors make the most of it?

                An ageing, shrinking population will add to pressure on wages and pensions — but there are opportunities

              • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
                Albert Park
                Asia’s ageing population could deliver a ‘silver dividend’

                Over time, investment in healthcare can ensure a healthier older generation that is more productive and requires less care

                Smiling elderly Japanese people wearing facemasks
              • Monday, 12 August, 2024
                Chinese business & finance
                China’s milk producers target adults as population ages

                Intense competition forces companies to seek out new areas of growth in one of world’s biggest dairy markets

                An elderly man shops for milk formula in a supermarket in China
              • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
                South Korea Society
                South Korea bets on foreign housekeepers to ease women’s workloads and boost birth rate

                Seoul to welcome Filipina workers under new scheme designed to encourage women to have children

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              • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
                News in-depthChinese society
                Younger Chinese fume at call to raise retirement age

                Communist party meeting sparks online row as experts warn ageing population makes change ‘inevitable’

                Two women, one young and the other much older, exit a crowded Beijing subway train
              • Monday, 15 July, 2024
                Demographics and population
                England and Wales record biggest annual population growth in 75 years

                Office for National Statistics points to impact of immigration as births slip to two-decade low

                Montage of a graph behind a photo of a crowd of people walking along
              • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
                Demographics and population
                Global population to shrink this century as birth rates fall

                UN report shows earlier — and lower — peak for number of people in the world to reach its maximum level

                Children pushed in a pram in Tokyo
              • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
                ReviewNon-Fiction
                No One Left by Paul Morland — why demography is still destiny

                With ageing populations, falling birth rates and fewer workers to pay tax, the author calls for bold experiments to cope with the dizzying changes already upon us

                A robot moves and speaks to elderly residents in a room
              • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
                Demographics and population
                Birth rates in rich countries halve to hit record low

                Steep decline in fertility will ‘change face of societies’ and affect growth prospects, says OECD

                Baby in South Korea
              • Monday, 17 June, 2024
                Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast23 min listen
                We need to rethink old age, with Martin Wolf

                The FT’s chief economics commentator talks about what a life should look like as more of us live into our 80s and 90s and even 100s

              • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
                Nestlé S.A.
                Nestlé CEO says feeding ageing populations a priority as birth rates fall

                World’s largest food group wants to focus on products that boost health of elderly

                Nestlé’s Boost nutritional drink on display at a store in Orlando, Florida
              • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
                Janan Ganesh
                The shock of the old

                The appetite for risk often increases with age

                A close-up of a man in his sixties with one raised eyebrow
              • Friday, 31 May, 2024
                Camilla Cavendish
                A new intergenerational contract is needed

                Pitching the old against the young is tempting but misguided

                Jonathan McHugh illustration of a bubble speech above an old lady’s head with an X on a ballot paper.
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