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Longevity Risk: Financial Security and Pensions

Is your retirement corpus good enough?

Pensions, market-linked insurance schemes and retirement plans cover a small subset of the population in India. For millions of elders, Government social protection programs and family support continue to be the lifelines, and keep them away from old age poverty.

  • Do we truly understand the multi-dimensionality of the longevity challenge?
  • What are the financial and social costs of longevity?
  • Are our social protection schemes addressing more contemporary needs?
  • Have pension reforms been meaningful in the Indian context?

In this essay, I look at the Indian experience and pension reforms from the lens of accumalating longevity risks.

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Longevity Dividend & The 100 Year Life

Designing for a 100 Year Life.

People around the world are living longer thanks to advances in medicine, public health and other factors.

  • Is living longer a gift or a curse?
  • What happens if more of us live till 100 years?
  • What does research around the world say?
  • How are countries, societies, businesses and individuals adapting to it?
  • How can you redesign your life for a 100 year life?

In this essay, which is broken into sections, I look at India’s longevity dividend (does it exist?) and highlight research around a 100 year life.

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Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA): A Quick Review

A recent study mentions that India, home to over 100 million adults over the age of 60 years, produces 20 geriatricians annually due to limited availability of post-graduate seats, and has limited functioning geriatric departments under public healthcare.

Given the increasing lifespan of general population, and the fact that India is projected to have a significant population of older adults, and particularly those with high-risk of comorbidity and other ailments, how can Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) screening help? How is it different from a general health check? Are Indian hospitals prepared for such screening? Can we adapt them to primary care settings? In this short essay, I try to review the limited literature that is available in India.

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