Editorial

Policy-makers and pundits are increasingly navigating the conundrum of the negative economic effects of population ageing on public health and pension entitlements. Our goal is to develop and help implement policies that assure our transition into a cohesive, productive, secure, and equitable ageing society. Failure to reach this goal will leave us with a society rife with intergenerational tensions–characterized by an enormous gap between the haves and the (increasingly less-educated) have-nots in quality of life and opportunity – and unable to provide the needed goods and services for any of its members, especially a progressively older and more dependent population. Gloomy though this scenario is, it is avoidable.