Older women in the United States continue to live longer than men, on average, but they’re spending an increasing share of their later years living with a disability, research suggests.
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When there’s a man in the house, U.S. mothers sleep less and spend more time on tasks like cooking, laundry, and cleaning.
Research has shown that in Côte d’Ivoire and around the world, abortion occurs among women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds, married or unmarried, and with or without children.
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Les recherches montrent qu’en Côte d’Ivoire et dans le monde, l’avortement survient chez les femmes de tous âges et de tous milieux socioéconomiques, mariées ou non, ou avec ou sans enfants.
Twenty-five years since the landmark International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, most countries have made great strides in increasing access to and voluntary use of family planning.
(2018) A new publication from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies eight key demographic trends shaping the rapidly growing U.S.
(Issue 38) Sleep may be as important to health in old age as diet and exercise. Numerous studies have shown that sleeping too much or too little is associated with mortality among older adults.
The World Population Is Growing Older. With continued declines in fertility and mortality, the global population’s shift toward an older age structure, known as population aging, will accelerate.
Using Films to Start Conversations for Change
Dressed in their colorful native garb, women from India, South Sudan, and Malawi gathered in a classroom at the Barefoot College in the village of Tilonia in northwestern India.
The share of older Americans with dementia is decreasing, but the total number will rise as the large baby boomer population ages and more people live longer.