ageing

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The economy is also under pressure from the country's ageing population, which has seen a shrinking workforce and ballooning social care costs.

From BBC

These ships, typically oil tankers such as the one Ivan is stuck on, are more often ageing vessels of obscure ownership, unseaworthy, likely uninsured, and operationally hazardous.

From BBC

But the prime minister faces a tough act balancing an ageing society reluctant to receive immigrants and an economy that would not sustain without them.

From BBC

"It feels really nice, and life goes on," the ageing mobster told local media outside a Melbourne courthouse.

From Barron's

The paper "ER remodelling is a feature of ageing and depends on ER-phagy" was published in Nature Cell Biology in February 2026.

From Science Daily