Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Fact Sheet: U.S. Dementia Trends
As the large baby boomer population ages, the total number of people with dementia in the United States will rise.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
As the large baby boomer population ages, the total number of people with dementia in the United States will rise.
(March 2008) The number of international migrants is at an all-time high. There were 191 million migrants in 2005, which means that 3 percent of the world's people left their country of birth or citizenship for a year or more.
(2002) Stigma and discrimination remain a major fact of life for the estimated 29.4 million people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and for the more than 11 million children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS.
When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, few sub-Saharan African countries had reported a single case of the disease, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Dr. Foxen discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Latino communities, why life expectancy for Latinos is expected to drop by three years, and the challenges in collecting and tracking national and state COVID-19 data by race and ethnicity.
(2010) The phrase "1.57 Shock" was widely used in Japan 20 years ago in reaction to the lowest fertility rate in the country's history.
Our webinar series on the new lower-fertility world begins next month