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    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      News in-depthRussian society
      Putin’s Russia turns on abortion

      Pro-choice campaigners link ultra-conservative rhetoric to Kremlin’s desire for more soldiers

      Protesters and clergy at an anti-abortion procession in St Petersburg
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Japanese business & finance
      Start-ups challenge culture of the Japanese salaryman

      Younger workers have new expectations of risk, reward and responsibility 

      Black and white photo of rows of smartly dressed young Japanese people with a red circle overlaid on the image
    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Andrew Hill
      In search of chief executives who never grow ‘old’

      Competence and capability are the best ways to assess leaders whatever their age

      Images of Janet Truncale and Andy Baldwin against a blue background with the yellow EY logo across it
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Gillian Tett
      After WeWork, the office is dead — long live the office

      The desk-renting start-up’s implosion ought to teach investors not to bet the future on the recent past

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a worker’s desk being torn away from an office building
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Emma Jacobs
      When will I start caring less about everything?

      This enlightened state is the biggest perk of middle age. Emma Jacobs is still waiting for it to hit

      Bette Davis as Margo Channing in ‘All About Eve’
    • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
      Entrepreneurship
      ‘I just lost the fear’: why more older people are founding start-ups

      Research suggests experienced founders are more likely to succeed, despite the prejudices of investors

      Kay Miller
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Anjana Ahuja
      How older women defy evolutionary logic

      A new study of chimpanzees has failed to explain why humans and some animals survive post-menopause

      Andy Carter illustration of a scientist holding a magnifying glass looking at an older lady
    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      Jemima Kelly
      In defence of the Gen Z challenge to the ‘work ethic’

      Contempt for younger workers protesting at the daily grind masks the fact that so few are happy with it

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    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Lilah Raptopoulos
      Wrinkles, and why they terrify my generation

      Fear of ageing is nothing new. But it’s happening younger and younger

    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
      The Gaza Strip — in charts

      A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the Palestinian enclave which is more crowded than Manhattan in parts

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    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Michael Skapinker
      It’s time we stopped talking about retirement

      The number of over-65s working is rising as older people take an active role in the world

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    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      How disadvantage became deadly in America

      The poorest in the US suffer early deaths in a way that their other developed world counterparts do not

    • Saturday, 7 October, 2023
      Europe Express
      Ageing Europe tries to boost birth rates Premium content

      Pronatalist policies in countries such as Poland and France have mixed results as governments seek to fill labour shortages

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    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      Boomers and millennials have each other’s backs

      A new study finds older people are sensitive to the challenges faced by young adults

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    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      First-time buyers
      Millennials and boomers are competing for homes. Guess who’s winning?

      Rising prices, high rates and demographics are reversing millennial gains

    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Why Japan’s demographics scream ‘buy’

      Labour deficit means companies are freed from having to keep excess staff and can focus on what they are best at

      Illustration of a man standing next to a giant globe pointing to the part where Japan is — with black tape stuck next to it on the globe.
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      Can China overcome its demographic deficit?

      As things stand, a declining population is set to slow the growth of the economy

      James Ferguson illustration of five spectators in yellow jerseys standing and cheering on an otherwise empty sports stadium that has red seats - their configuration emulating the Chinese flag
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Japan
      Japan government pension acts on population strain

      World’s largest retirement fund turns to data science in hunt for higher returns

      The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) logo is displayed on a brochure
    • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Japan’s toddler superstar: the baby bringing hope to a ghost village

      In the small community of Ichinono, the first birth in more than two decades has focused minds on a demographic crisis

      Life-size dolls against a countryside setting
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Property sector
      Should I invest in UK student property?

      FT Money wants to hear from readers

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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Why are white Britons dying at higher rates than other ethnic groups?

      New mortality data could help create targeted policy to reduce the UK’s large and growing disease burden

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    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      UK social care
      £8bn needed to keep pace with demand for social care in England over next decade

      Figure rises to £18bn for a complete overhaul of system, according to Health Foundation study

      Staff assist a man using a zimmer frame at a residential care home in the UK
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      Are we destined for a zero-sum future?

      A backdrop of slower economic growth may be shaping attitudes of tomorrow that cut across political divides

      A pie with a US dollar on its face is divided up and two people take slices
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      UK care homes
      How to pay for long-term old age care

      If you can, save early as costs are rising - by more than a fifth in the past five years

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Great expectations

      The secret to avoiding Japanification, apparently

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