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The world’s population is aging at an unprecedented pace. For individuals, aging is accompanied by changes in health conditions and functional and cognitive abilities and, for many, the need to re-think living arrangements, daily activities, and finances. For families and societies, increases in the numbers and shares of individuals at the upper end of the age distribution pose challenges with respect to how to meet older individuals’ needs for care and how best to prepare for the aging populations of the future.

Research regarding how aging processes and the well-being of older adults vary within and across countries and settings that differ in degrees of wealth, levels of industrialization, and systems of family organization is fundamental in preparing for an aging world. CCPAH faculty are deeply engaged in research on these questions.

As a center, CCPAH accelerates research, fosters development of new work on a variety of aging-related topics, and amplifies the impact of data and publications produced by our affiliates. As part of the CPC, one of the most productive population research centers in the world, CCPAH leverages well-developed organizational structures to catalyze aging research. Moreover, we build on UNC-CH’s position as the flagship university in a statewide system of 16 institutions to integrate scientists at a number of other universities.