Description: The article looks at potential changes in care provider demographics that could ultimately have an impact on the cost of long term care services.

Description: An actuarial perspective on a book review of Biological Imperatives a book written by biologist Allan Chase. An interesting perspective which may be of interest as the United States evaluates its health care reform options.

Description: Comparison of healthcare costs for early retirees versus active workers in the same age band. When adjusted for age, there is not a significant difference in costs between each group.

Description: Paper provides an overview of the impacts of population aging on the design and marketing of group life and health and group pension products over the next 40 years. While the paper is written with a group focus, the implications of the material for individual product design and marketing are immediately obvious and equally important. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1994, Vol. 46.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, that highlights since 1981, U.S. federal budget cutbacks have clamped down hard on the federal agencies that produce all kinds of statistics - demographic, economic and regulatory data. Actuaries, who use these federal statistics to develop mortality tables, to produce marketing studies, to examine economic trends, and to study health costs, should work with the federal agencies to restore this data.

Description: This article talks about longevity risk and reinsurance and its global challenges.

Description: This article presents recent perspectives on the understanding and measurement of pandemic risk.

Description: This is an update on the final Report of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future and six volumes of the research papers used by the Commission in writing the report. The article gives the names of the seven volumes of research which are available from the Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office.

Description: This article is a review and analysis of “Mankind at the Turning Point: the Second Report to the Club of Rome,” by Mihajlo Mesarovi and Eduard Pestel, published in 1974. The author notes that this work was initiated by the Club of Rome with the specific objective of meeting the more serious criticisms leveled at the original study, the Forrester-Meadows Limits to Growth report. The article discusses world growth and population, and the conclusions reached by the authors of the report.

Description: The article discovers that mortality is higher for females than for males at higher ages, and suggests "stress" as the explanation. It then discusses mental illness research, including recovery therefrom.