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  • 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

    Students gather outside a university library
  • 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

    A doctor with a stethoscope round his neck talking to a patient
  • 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

  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    Robert Shrimsley
    Sunak’s Conservatives are betting against the future

    There has been a breakdown in the economic promise that previously swung voters to the right as they got older

    Illustration of a chart line which is mostly red with a short section of blue. Above the red line is a crawling baby, then a child, then an adult and an older adult. Above the blue line is a very old person and a grave
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    UK society
    Number of people aged 100 or over in England and Wales hits record high

    ONS analysis finds 11,288 female and 2,636 male centenarians on back of reduced mortality

    A grandmother celebrates her 100th birthday
  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
    Datawatch
    Battle of the ages: how America’s gerontocracy is a challenge for democracy

    US legislators are especially old, even in a world where older politicians dominate

    Montage with images of Nancy Pelosi, Joe biden and Mitch McConnell against a backdrop of red bar chart lines and a faded image of the Capitol building
  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
    Pilita Clark
    The plight of the hidden carers in your workforce

    Millions of staff secretly juggle busy jobs with demanding caring duties that need more recognition

    Illustration of a person pushing someone in a wheelchair while speaking into a headset and saying ‘Yes, yes, we really need to push this project forward’
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    Scotland
    Scotland registers slowest population growth rate in UK

    Latest census data highlights country’s demographic challenges, with 23% rise in over-65s

    People walking on Edinburgh’s main thoroughfare, Princes Street
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Special ReportThriving Cities
    Youth can help reshape poor urban environments

    More effort is required, not least by policymakers, to involve young people in developing programmes they want and need

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  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Long-term care: counting the cost

    How are you shouldering the financial burden of old age?

    Staff assist an elderly woman in a care home
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Charlotte Ransom
    Financial ingredients for the ‘sandwich generation’

    People helping adult children and elderly parents should first check their own needs

  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    FT SeriesExtreme renting
    Extreme renting: Estonia start-up boom fuels EU’s biggest cost rises

    High levels of home ownership in the Baltic nation mean rents are volatile to market changes and fuelled by expat workers

    Montage of Euro sign against Tallinn skyline
  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    FT SeriesExtreme renting
    Extreme renting: limits on rents leave Berlin’s new tenants vying for homes

    Housing costs have skyrocketed in a city once known as ‘hip and cheap’

    Montage of apartments and chart lines
  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    FT SeriesExtreme renting
    Extreme renting: Santorini’s teachers forced to rough it in Airbnb haven

    Tourists flocking to Greek islands and Italian cities are pricing out public sector workers and students

    Montage of Santorini and chart lines
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    Special ReportFT Wealth: September
    The transfer of wealth from boomers to ‘zennials’ will reshape the global economy

    Financier Ken Costa argues the millennials and Gen-Z generations are unsuited to managing capital because of their left-wing views

    Young teachers marching holding up placards and banners in favour of strike action
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Global spread of birth rate decline makes problem more not less urgent

    Demographic challenge grips UK but non-UK born migrants having children in the country has not moved the dial

    A lollipop lady assists with road crossing as children head to school in Glasgow
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    FT SeriesExtreme renting
    Extreme renting: how rising rates turned the screws on tenants across Europe

    Heated market in housing hotspots is compounded by increasing mortgage costs deterring buyers

    A montage of a photo of a residential building, a line graph and a euro symbol
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    Global Economy
    Old people are the worst

    For economic growth at least

  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    Gideon Rachman
    China hits the east Asian demographic wall

    Like Japan and South Korea, China has a shrinking population but it has fewer ways to manage the change

    Illustration of Chinese president Xi Jinping riding a big red horse with yellow stars on it which is wading though deep mud
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Social media finfluencers embrace the rules to reach a new audience

    Young online experts fight against misinformation and offer proper financial guidance

    Collage of social media influencers Timi Merriman-Johnson, James Shackell, Kia Commodore and Bola Sol
  • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
    UK society
    Falling birth rate highlights UK’s demographic challenges

    Number of live births in England and Wales last year was lowest since 2002

    Newborn babies in a maternity ward
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