Traditionally, China's growing population has either resulted in denser habitation in existing cities, or new developments augmenting older population centers, creating hybrid environments.
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Froehlich isn't shying away from pharmaceutical companies as he's a contrarian investor and he anticipates increased demand for prescription drugs from a larger, older population.
"At a time when people are dying at such levels among our older population, it is appalling that this cut should be aimed at this section of our population, " he protested.
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You project out 20-30 years -- almost all the growth is because health care costs are just going out of control and we've got an older population that's going to need more care.
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For example, there is a growing body of evidence that the years beyond midlife are one of life's most creative, innovative and entrepreneurial periods, and that the older population itself constitutes an undiscovered continent of ingenuity.
While in developed countries the aging population and an increasing rate of chronic diseases among the older population will continue to drive demand for nutrition products, the rise of the middle class is likely to boost sales in emerging markets.
The biggest challenge is demographic: Japan is growing older as its population declines.
That figure is expected to treble over the next 25 years as the population grows older.
Nonetheless, as the rich world's population grows older, help in dying will be increasingly requested.
Some differences from the West's will fade as the industry and China's economy mature and the country's internet population grows older and richer.
The simplest expression of this is median age (by definition, half of the population is older than the median age, and half younger).
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Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of the population is older than 65, while the number of immigrants in the country remains below 2%, according to the International Organization for Migration.
Medicare is a bigger issue because not only is the population getting older and more people are using it, but health care costs have been going up way too fast.
The number of white children declined, due in part to age: The white population is older on average, so more whites are dying, and fewer are in their prime child-bearing years.
According to AARP, U.S. Census Bureau projections show that the number of people aged 65 or older in the American population is expected to double in the next three decades, to about 70 million.
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And problem number two we already talked about, which is rising health care costs and programs like Medicaid and Medicare are going to -- once you get past this decade, going to start zooming up again as a consequence of the population getting older and health care costs going up more rapidly than incomes and wages and revenues are going up.
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Consider that the bulk of the net growth in population is among older people.
Quotas have been set to ensure reliable and accurate representation of the U.S. adult population 18 and older.
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Medicare and Medicaid are huge problems because health care costs are rising even as the population is getting older.
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About 40 million people in America - 13% of the population - are older than 65, and 5.5 million have surpassed 85.
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What is happening is, is that the population is getting older, which means we've got more retirees per worker than we used to.
By the year 2050, the government projects, 40% of the population will be older than 65, straining public funds while relying on a dwindling tax base.
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What is also true, though, is our health care costs have been skyrocketing and more seniors are joining up Medicare because the population is getting older.
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Mounting Pressure on Pensions: The American population is getting older.
The population aged 85 and older is also projected to double, to about 8.5 million.
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With 17% of the population aged 60 or older, Uruguay is the oldest country in the Western Hemisphere.
But who will provide adequate long-term care to this population as it grows older, frailer and more dependent remains an open question.
More than half of the U.S. population age 65 and older has disabling rotator cuff conditions, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
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Among those 55 and older, the share of the population desirous of self-employment was 25 percentage points higher than the share that considers it possible within five years.
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