Welcome to the News section of AARPInternational.org. Here you will find timely information from sources around the world on issues related to demographic change. You will also find our latest News Maker interviews.
CoverAGE is AGE's monthly newsletter that highlights important policy proposals that affect Europe's aging population.
CAAR (Current Awareness in Aging Research) is a weekly email report produced by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that helps researchers keep up to date with the latest developments in the field.
The Office of Policy at the U.S. Social Security Administration issues a monthly report on developments in global public pension systems.
Countries around the globe are facing rapidly aging populations coupled with falling birth rates. That could mean significant labor shortages as more people reach retirement age. In Germany, for instance, the elderly population has nearly doubled in the past 50 years and the ratio of elderly to the working age population is declining.
In this Newsmaker, Dr. Jürgen Deller, Professor of Organizational Psychology at the Leuphana University of Leuneburg, Germany, discusses possible solutions to combat labor shortages caused by a rapidly aging workforce.