1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor supply of the elderly and females -- 3. Labor force ageing and economic growth in Japan -- 4. Ageing and elderly care in an open economy -- 5. Immigration vs. foreign...

Introduction and overview -- Population dynamics in Brazil -- Old-age social protection programs and the aging challenge -- Health and long-term care -- Education and productivity -- Public finance implications of population aging: 2005-50 -- Financing Brazil's aging population : implications...

Sir Francis Bacon explored as a medical question the issue of how human life spans might be returned to the near-thousand years enjoyed by Adam and the Patriarchs. Extended old age seemed feasible: reports told of people living well into their centenary. Meanwhile, New World natives were said to...