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    Building a society for all ages, UK Government

    Building a Society for All Ages (launched 2009)  is the UK Government’s strategy of reforms to pensions and health systems for older people.
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    Is Latin America retreating from individual retirement accounts?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2009
    In 1981, Chile initiated old-age pension reforms that introduced mandatory funded individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and moved away from public systems. Ten other Latin American countries followed the Chilean model in the 1990s.
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    Can the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union afford to grow old?

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2009
    The demographic transition in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) displays unusual characteristics.The transition now underway is rapid compared with international experience, and emigration is playing a particularly large role.  By 2060, ECCU pension funds’ expenditure will exceed contributions by over 6.2 percent of GDP, based on pension funds’ actuarial projections.
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    Ageing Asia’s looming pension crisis

    Asian Development Bank, 2009
    Due to population ageing, weakening of family-based support, and related factors, old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of the pension systems in eight East and Southeast Asian countries, identifying their major structural weaknesses, and suggesting some specific policy directions for them.
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    Basics of Alzheimer’s disease: What it is and what you can do

    Alzheimer’s Association, 2009
    Manual intended for anyone who would like to learn more about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Chapters include: when memory loss is a warning sign 10 warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia how Alzheimer’s affects the brain
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    Alzheimer’s Association

    Voluntary health organisation in Alzheimer care, support and research.
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    Prison Reform Trust

    The Prison Reform Trust is an independent charity that seeks to:
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    Doing time: the experiences and needs of older people in prison

    Prison Reform Trust, 2009
    Prison staff working with older prisoners require specialist training and support, as the needs of older people can be hard to detect. The increase in numbers of people needing significant health and social care input has created huge challenges for prison, probation, health and social service staff. Despite improvements in this area and pockets of good practice, these needs remain largely unmet.
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    Poverty and disability among Indian elderly: evidence from household survey

    Australia South Asia Research Centre, 2009
    In India, more than one quarter of the Indian aged population (age 60 upwards) is disabled.  Age-specific disability rates and the severity of disablement increases with age.  Indian data also suggests that that 40 percent of the elderly live below the poverty line and 90 percent are neither covered by any state pension nor have any family to take care of them.
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    Private saving in India and Malaysia compared: the role of financial liberalization and expected pension benefits

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009
    This paper compares the evolution of private saving in India and Malaysia, and analyses how policy changes in the financial sectors and pension systems help explain differences in their saving performance. It assesses whether the ‘forced saving’ nature of the pension systems in India and Malaysia had any effect on voluntary saving by the private sector.

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