Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers discussed how social media and new technologies may enhance—or limit—social connectedness and emotional well-being among older adults.
Gender equality means a balance in the power and privileges, responsibilities, and resources that men and women possess.
Latino workers and families have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic across nearly every aspect of their lives, which will have repercussions for years to come.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
International agreements have long recognized the positive role that men can play in family planning and reproductive health. These 57 data-driven slides promote increased engagement of men to sharing the responsibility for family planning and reproductive health with women.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Pathfinder International and partners in Kenya and Uganda have implemented the Health of the People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin (HoPE-LVB) project since 2011.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
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. Older adults' (ages 65+) share of the global population increased from 5 percent in 1960 to 9 percent in 2018 and is projected to rise to 16 percent by 2050, with the segment ages 85 and older growing the fastest. Children's (ages 0 to 14) share is falling, from 37 percent in 1960, to 26 percent in 2018, with a projected decrease to 21 percent by 2050.
PRB's ENGAGE presentation, "Family Planning: The Changing Path of Unmet Need," aims to improve understanding of why women who say that they want to postpone their next birth, or not have any more children, are not using any form of contraception.