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Topic- Economics of aging
Energy costs, social isolation up extreme weather health risks
UK researchers have found that financial problems make it difficult for some older adults to prioritize heating and cooling their homes, leading to approximately 50,000 excess deaths in the winter of 2017/2018 and more than 1,200 excess deaths in June and July, 2018 in England and Wales.
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Stats: 64% of retirees don't have a big enough nest egg
Fewer than half of retirees (46%) have built a large enough retirement nest egg, and the rest are in a "precarious" position, according to findings from the latest Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies survey.
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Stats: Health costs of ageism: US$63 billion yearly
Ageism led to excess costs of US$63 billion for a broad range of health conditions in people over age 60, according to Yale researchers.
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Well-being metrics critical to social, policy decisions
Income-based metrics that measure a country's economic growth don't tell the whole story about its population, argues Carol Graham of the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, in an editorial in the journal Science and a Gallup blog post.
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Working caregivers have lower financial well-being
Working caregivers are more likely to lack money for medicine and healthcare and have "substantially" lower financial well-being compared with their counterparts who are not caregivers, according to a recent Gallup poll.
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ARC nations embrace age-friendly cities
AARP recently released its 2018 Aging Readiness and Competitiveness (ARC) report, which examines how prepared nations are for the challenges and opportunities presented by a rapidly aging population.
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