Preparations for a course this summer on the Demographic and Economic Aspects of Aging, some background reading. 
- Critically Understanding Asian Perspectives on Aging
Vendana Desai & Matthew Tye | Third World Quarterly 2009 - Demography of Aging in China and the United States and the Economic Well-Being of their Older Populations
Charles Louis Kincannon, Wan He, Loraine A. West | Springer Science and Business Media 2006 - Effects of Normal Aging on Memory for Multiple Contextual Features
Sylvain Gagnon, Kathleen Soulard, Melissa Brasgold, Joshua Kreller | Brain and Cognition 2007 - Global Aging and the Crisis of the 2020s
Neil Howe & Richard Jackson | ProQuest Political Science 2011 - Older Persons in Thailand – A Demographic, Social and Economic Profile
John Knodel, Napaporn Chayovan | Aging International 2009 - Population Aging and Economic Progress in Asia – A Bumpy Road Ahead?
Andrew Mason, Sang Hyop Lee | East-West Center 2011 - Research on Aging of Population and the Sustainable Development
Hongmei Wang | Asian Social Science 2010 - Some Macroeconomic Aspects of Global Population Aging*
Ronald Lee, Andrew Mason | Demography 2010 - The Macao Outcome Document
of the High-Level Meeting on the Regional Review of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Aging
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Macao, China) 2007 - The Power of Global Aging
Jason L. Powell | Aging International 2010