Racial Disparities

Daughter helping elderly mother with needlepoint

The answer from caregivers is clear. In the U.S. today, roughly 38 million people provide unpaid eldercare.  That number is likely to dramatically increase in the future as the number of people needing care grows.  One of the biggest challenges with unpaid care is…well, that it’s unpaid – and, in fact, it often reduces people’s…

Miniature old people walking on the graph. The concept of an aging society.

The unpredictability of one’s lifespan is a major difficulty in retirement planning and provides the impetus for insurance products guaranteeing lifetime income.  It is well known that this variance of longevity differs across demographic and socioeconomic groups, but the patterns of this variance over time have not been studied…

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