August 2025
07Aug

Nigeria’s president orders speedy rollout of free healthcare for low-income retirees

President Bola Tinubu has directed the expedited rollout of a free healthcare initiative for low-income retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), describing the measure as essential to ensuring dignity and social protection in retirement. The President also ordered the prompt implementation of long-overdue pension increases and the establishment of a minimum pension guarantee to serve as a safety net for the most vulnerable pensioners within the CPS. The directives followed a briefing from the Director General of the National Pension...

August 7, 2025
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01Aug

Extending Healthspans in an Aging World

By Stephen P. Utkus & Olivia S. Mitchell Extensions in human longevity are prompting a growing interest in maximizing healthspan, or the number of years of life unencumbered by the chronic diseases of old age. This chapter reviews recent research on healthy life extension, including several measures and determinants of longer healthspans. We also provide an overview of recent efforts by medical and business enterprises to enhance longevity and healthspan, followed by a discussion of policy and workplace options to...

August 1, 2025
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July 2025
24Jul

EBRI: Long-Term Care One of the Most Under-Addressed Retirement Risks

In a July 22 webinar, the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Morningstar revealed that employees’ perceptions of long-term care needs, knowledge and accessibility of long-term services and supports, as well as longevity influence their financial readiness in retirement.  The webinar was based on findings from EBRI’s “Employee Long-Term Care Survey,” fielded in 2024, as well as results from Morningstar’s “The Overlooked Cost: How Long Term Services and Supports Impacts Retirement-Income Adequacy,” released in May.   “America is aging, yet nearly 40% of households...

July 24, 2025
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15Jul

Retirement Then, Now, and Next

By Teresa Ghilarducci & The SCEPA Team  Late Baby Boomers (age 59-67), Generation X (age 43-58) and Millennials (age 27-42) are retiring under much worse conditions than Early Baby Boomers (between age 68-76 in 2022). This fact gets obscured by research that paints an optimistic picture of retirement security that only really existed for Early Baby Boomers. Later generations have been impacted by changes to the conditions of retirement that Early Baby Boomers did not experience. This includes: the shift...

July 15, 2025
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June 2025
27Jun

LGBT Older Adults: Chosen Family and Caregiving

By Nancy J. Knauer In the United States, informal eldercare is principally the responsibility of younger relatives. Adult children perform the majority of eldercare and nonrelatives perform only fourteen percent of care. Caregiving in the LGBT community follows a very different pattern that reflects the importance of “chosen family” in the lives of LGBT older adults. Instead of relying on relatives, LGBT older adults largely care for each other. Relatives provide only eleven percent of all eldercare. This article explores the...

June 27, 2025
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03Jun

Nigeria. PTAD explores health insurance expansion for pensioners

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate has sought to expand the pilot phase of its collaboration with the National Health Insurance Authority to enable more pensioners to benefit from health insurance coverage. This was indicated in a statement following a recent visit by the Executive Secretary of PTAD, Tolulope Odunaiya, to the office of the Director-General of the National Health Insurance Authority, Dr. Kelechi Ohiri. In 2023, PTAD and NHIA entered into a collaboration to provide health insurance coverage for pensioners under...

June 3, 2025
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May 2025
16May

The Longevity Story: Opportunities and Considerations

By World Governments Summit   This report delves into the concept of longevity, highlighting how advancements in medical technology, sanitation, preventive care, and lifestyle choices have significantly increased human lifespans—from an average of 45 years in the 1950s to over 73 years today. While early efforts to extend life overlooked aging itself, recent focus on understanding and potentially reversing the aging process has fueled the growth of the longevity industry. Organizations like Altos Labs, Hevolution Foundation, and Pure Health are pioneering...

May 16, 2025
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12May

China. Eld­erly patients to get improved clin­ical care

China plans to build more clin­ics spe­cial­iz­ing in geri­at­rics at major hos­pit­als and strengthen their cap­ab­il­it­ies as part of broader efforts to address the needs of a rap­idly aging soci­ety, accord­ing to a recent guideline released by the National Health Com­mis­sion. The updated guideline on the estab­lish­ment and man­age­ment of clin­ics for eld­erly patients, issued on Thursday, replaces an earlier ver­sion from 2019. It man­dates that hos­pit­als in the upper two tiers of the coun­try’s three-tier hos­pital sys­tem estab­lish such clin­ics...

May 12, 2025
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April 2025
30Apr

US budget: Senior care will shrink even as the country’s older population grows.

The Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 budget proposal for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services delivers a devastating blow to the very foundation of aging services in America. By breaking apart the coordination and delivery of programs under the Older Americans Act, the administration is jeopardizing the health, independence and dignity of millions of older adults and their caregivers. At the core of this proposal is the dismantling of the Administration for Community Living, the agency that has effectively administered the Older...

April 30, 2025
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March 2025
31Mar

As the U.S. population ages, solo caregiving becomes more common

Call it a silver tsunami or just going gray. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that in just 10 years, older adults will outnumber those under 18 for the first time in U.S. history. America is aging, and that means more families providing care for parents and grandparents and even great-great-grandparents. And while much has already been said about caregiving, there is far less research into what it's like to walk that road alone. To talk about solo caregiving and...

March 31, 2025
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