, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in …

The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity …, and increases public assistance. Using a microsimulation approach, we quantify the competing public-finance consequences … obesity have increased net public-sector liabilities by $430bn, or approximately 4% of the current debt burden. Larger effects …

For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have … enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate …

, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical … fundamentally affected by ageing, and it adds little to our capacity to predict how work capacity evolves with age. Fourth …

individual working-biographies. This discussion paper portrays the instrument of this projection, a microsimulation model for the … year 1996 in Germany (AVID-PRO). For the purpose of this microsimulation model we first raised longitudinal section and … for the continuation of suitable models. In the centre of the microsimulation based projection we have three sub …

With the population ageing the development of sustainable long-term care institutions is of great importance in many … years policy addressing ageing related problems was developed, focusing on the active ageing instruments. Dependency … prevention and active ageing are among goals of national policies formulated separately in the health and social sector …