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Economics of ageing

Published date
20 April 2022
Last updated
20 April 2022
Authors
Age and Ageing
Topic tags
Age and Ageing
Health and social care policy

The Economics of Ageing. An online themed collection of  Age and Ageing journal articles.

Demographic projections suggest that population ageing is likely to accelerate over the next 50 years, with the ageing phenomenon being particularly marked in developed countries.

Read free articles from Oxford Review of Economic Policy 's issue on Economics of Ageing and Pensions as well as related articles from Journal of Public Health, and our own journal Age and Ageing.

  1. Implications of population ageing: an editorial introduction
  2. Global Growth, ageing, and inequality across and within generations
  3. Pensions: Overview of the Issues
  4. The Economics of Pensions
  5. Cost of stroke in the United Kingdom
  6. Post-acute care for older people in community hospitals—a cost-effectiveness analysis within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial
  7. Economic analysis of an early discharge rehabilitation service for older people
  8. Occupational therapy compared with social work assessment for older people. An economic evaluation alongside the CAMELOT randomised controlled trial
  9. Estimating the future healthcare costs of an aging population in the UK: expansion of morbidity and the need for preventative care

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