{"id":229,"date":"2010-12-17T12:31:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/?p=229"},"modified":"2011-06-17T12:36:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T16:36:23","slug":"asias-looming-social-challenge-coping-with-the-elder-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2010\/12\/17\/asias-looming-social-challenge-coping-with-the-elder-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia&#8217;s Looming Social Challenge: Coping With the Elder Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Science) BEIJING<\/strong>\u2014Asia is graying fast. The portion of the population age 65 or older will more than triple in China, India, and Indonesia\u2014and more than double in Japan\u2014between 2000 and 2050, according to United Nations projections. That&#8217;s a triumph of civil society and medical science, but it also poses stiff challenges to Asian nations trying to create or strengthen social safety nets. \u201cResponding to these challenges will be one of the most difficult tasks facing governments in the first half of this century,\u201d warns a report<a id=\"xref-fn-1-1-fn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/330\/6011\/1599.1.full#fn-1\">*<\/a> released here last week by five science academies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/330\/6011\/1599.1.full\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/330\/6011\/1599.1.full<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Science) BEIJING\u2014Asia is graying fast. The portion of the population age 65 or older will more than triple in China, India, and Indonesia\u2014and more than double in Japan\u2014between 2000 and 2050, according to United Nations projections. That&#8217;s a triumph of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/2010\/12\/17\/asias-looming-social-challenge-coping-with-the-elder-boom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41277,41276],"tags":[42125,42124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/eldercare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}