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- By Jacques van den Broek
- Jun 30, 2016
"As large numbers of workers around the world begin stepping down from their jobs, employers are bracing themselves for a significant loss of experience and talent."
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- By Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, MPH
- Jun 30, 2016
"Aging well is our new challenge. Achieving it will require us not only to reinvent our health care systems but also to fundamentally change our basic attitudes toward health and well-being throughout our lifetimes."
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- By Catherine Collinson
- Jun 30, 2016
"A vision of inclusive aging, a world in which everyone can enjoy longer and healthier lives, cannot be achieved without a fundamental rethinking of retirement."
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- By Rodolphe Gelin
- Jun 30, 2016
"The robot can also be a useful tool to maintain the social link between the elderly person and his or her relatives."
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- By H.M. Queen Silvia
- Apr 30, 2016
"I know there is a great sadness to see the person you love fade away more and more. Therefore, greater knowledge of dementia has become a mission for me, and I hope that it will be widely recognized that this is a disease that must be shouldered by the entire society."
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- By Helen Dean
- Apr 30, 2016
"As needs change, we want to make sure we’re adapting and keeping up so that we can fulfill our mission to help millions of people enjoy a better retirement."
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- By Christopher Brooks
- Apr 30, 2016
"Over the next couple of years, every small employer in the country will have to auto-enroll their workers. This is likely to get interesting—it’s one thing for large employers, which are already likely to have a pension plan for new savers or have the resources to set one up, but quite another thing for smaller businesses that are new to this world."
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- By Susan St. John
- Apr 30, 2016
"KiwiSaver is in its 9th year. It has achieved remarkable acceptance, low administration costs, and wide transparency; however, low levels of contribution, its use for housing, too many in default schemes, low default contribution rates, and lack of longevity protection, remain as concerns."
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- By Nigel Keohane
- Apr 30, 2016
"Given that we are only a year into the reform, it remains too early to understand the long-term implications of choices made by UK retirees, but looking internationally can also guide us."
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- By Stéphanie Payet and Romain Despalins
- Apr 30, 2016
"The concern is that, as pension funds move into riskier investments, they may be seriously compromising their solvency situation (for DB plans) and their capacity to deliver adequate retirement income (for DC plans) in the event of a negative shock in financial markets."
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- By Jeremy Cooper
- Apr 30, 2016
"The Australian system was recently ranked third, with a B+, in a global pension survey. However, we must move quickly to create more ways for retirees to spend their retirement savings safely and sustainably if we are to stay world-class."
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- By Gary Koenig
- Apr 30, 2016
"Encouraging people to save for retirement—an event often decades into the future—in any country is a tall order. The right policies, however, can make a difference in people’s lives, and while each nation and state has specific circumstances, we can learn a lot from each other."
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- By Kevin de León
- Apr 30, 2016
"Today, over 7 million workers in California have zero access to workplace retirement savings plans, and nearly 50 percent of middle-income workers are at risk of sliding into poverty when they can no longer work."
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- By Daniel Biss
- Apr 30, 2016
"Illinois, like the entire United States, is hurtling toward a retirement crisis. Around half of private-sector workers have access to employer-sponsored plans; however, most workers who do not have such plans are, essentially, saving nothing to supplement Social Security, putting themselves on a path to poverty."
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- By Mark Mullet
- Apr 30, 2016
"Although much of the state is experiencing an economic boom, it is estimated that 52 percent of Washington State workers lack access to a workplace-based retirement savings option, across all business size categories."
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- By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
- Dec 31, 2015
"If not addressed, the feminization of aging has the potential to become one of the biggest challenges to gender equality of this century; therefore, these issues need targeted action by governments and international organizations."
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- By Henry Kim
- Dec 31, 2015
"Korean boomers clearly understand the current situation. They do not want to retire and wish to continue working beyond the general retirement age. The words that best describe them are “Neveretiree,” “amortality” (living agelessly), and “dystopic” (not optimistic about future)"
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- By Catherine Earl
- Dec 31, 2015
"Retirement as a self-managed career offers professional women freedom to decide what to do and how to do it, which paid working did not allow due to restructuring, increasing demands, added evening and weekend work, or less predictability."
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- By Neil Blumenthal
- Dec 31, 2015
"When it comes to employees, we build a work culture that nurtures curiosity, rewards creativity, and provides endless learning opportunities (classes, training sessions, book clubs, speakers, and beyond)."
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- By Laurence Rossignol
- Dec 31, 2015
"We are setting up at the national level a “high council” that will allow different individuals from all walks of life (young adults, those in middle age, and elderly people) to exchange between them and to be active contributors to the definition of public policies."
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- By Hannah J. Swift
- Dec 31, 2015
This article highlights some of the lesser-known negative consequences of age stereotypes that permeate society. But first, it examines some of the psychological processes underpinning ageism that older people may face by revealing how people use and apply the category labels 'old' and 'young.'"
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- By Tom Wright
- Dec 31, 2015
"Community is important to many older people, and nonprofits can help enable social action through establishing and supporting local groups and forums that give members a powerful voice."
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- By Paul Irving
- Dec 30, 2015
"Now representing nearly a fourth of the US population and at 1.8 billion strong worldwide, the millennial generation could be the one to solidify new ideas and norms to improve longer lives."