Care at the Margins: Aging, Poverty, and Chronic Disease

Harvard FAS

In recent decades, macroscale demographic and epidemiological trends have led to a marked increase in the number of older adults as a proportion of the global population. This transition is predicted to accelerate throughout the 21st century; indeed, by the year 2080, it is estimated that the global number of persons aged 65 and older will surpass the number of persons under 18 years of age. Nevertheless, elderhood remains an understudied stage of human life that, in many societies today,…