If low birth rates and high death rates continue as they are now, a major decline in Germany’s population is “inevitable,” the federal statistics office (Destatis) reported on Tuesday.
The parliamentary representative of trade union IG Bau hopes that a new strategy will make more room for families in German cities: Pay pensioners to downsize, he says.
A study comparing quality of life for older people around the world has ranked Germany 5th out of 96 countries. How good a place is Germany for the elderly?
Germany’s aging population means seniors are taking up a larger market share than before. One in every three euros spent comes from a person over 60. Advertisers are reacting to the trend by hiring seniors to model their products.
A fire at a Würzburg retirement home killed three people and injured another six overnight, Bavarian police said Tuesday. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
<b>With Germany’s society ageing rapidly, Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, explains why you soon might have to pay your grandmother for her valuable time.</b>
German police stopped a 96-year-old wheelchair driver who left his retirement home and took a Berlin highway to pick up flowers for his apartment, tabloid daily <i>B.Z.</i> reported on Friday.
