Late-20th-century demographic phenomenon of population aging
Silver tsunami (also known as grey tsunami, gray tsunami, silver wave, gray wave, or grey wave) is a metaphor used to describe population aging; specifically, baby boomers reaching the age of 65 starting in 2011.[1][2] This demographic will include a massive expansion to the number of people living in first world nations over the age of 80 [3][4].The silver tsunami metaphor has been used in popular media and in scholarly literature[5][6][7]
to refer to the late-twentieth-century demographic phenomenon of population aging in major media platforms including The Economist,[8] Forbes.com,[9] and multiple news outlets.[10][11] The phrase has also been used to refer more specifically to health and economic implications associated with population aging by major medical publications including The British Medical Journal,[12]New England Journal of Medicine,[13] and professional organizations including American Psychological Association.[14]
According to Google’s Ngram Viewer, variants of the silver tsunami metaphor (for example: age wave, grey hoard, rising tide, grey or gray tsunami)[15] first occurred in reference to population aging in the 1980s.[5]
^Delafuente, Jeffrey C. (2009-02-19). "The silver tsunami is coming: will pharmacy be swept away with the tide?". American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 73 (1): 1. doi:10.5688/aj730101. ISSN 1553-6467. PMC 2690864. PMID 19513138.
^Prašnikar, Eva; Borišek, Jure; Perdih, Andrej (2021-03-01). "Senescent cells as promising targets to tackle age-related diseases". Ageing Research Reviews. 66: 101251. doi:10.1016/j.arr.2020.101251. ISSN 1568-1637. PMID 33385543. S2CID 229717629.
^Eurostat (European Commission) (2019). Ageing Europe: looking at the lives of older people in the EU : 2019 edition. LU: Publications Office of the European Union. doi:10.2785/811048. ISBN 978-92-76-09815-7.
^Delafuente, Jeffrey C. (2009-02-19). "The Silver Tsunami is Coming: Will Pharmacy Be Swept Away with the Tide?". American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 73 (1): 1. doi:10.5688/aj730101. ISSN 0002-9459. PMC 2690864. PMID 19513138.
^ abBarusch, Amanda (2013). "The Aging Tsunami: Time for a New Metaphor?". Journal of Gerontological Social Work. 56 (3): 181–184. doi:10.1080/01634372.2013.787348. PMID 23548140. S2CID 41067427.
^Jasper, Mila (14 June 2019). "A silver wave? California braces for elderly boom that could overburden state". The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
^"Aging America forecasts a 'gray wave' for U.S.| Opinion". The Tennessean.
^"The silver tsunami". The Economist. 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
^"A Silver Tsunami Invades The Health Of Nations". Forbes.com. 2015-08-11. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
^"Our hospitals are not ready for the grey tsunami". The Globe and Mail.
^"Preparing for the 'grey tsunami': Editorial". Thestar.com. 30 September 2015.
^Bob Roehr (2012-07-10). "US geriatric mental health workforce needs to expand, says Institute of Medicine". BMJ. 345: e4686. doi:10.1136/bmj.e4686. PMID 22782905. S2CID 34744518. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
^Bartels SJ, Naslund JA (2013). "The Underside of the Silver Tsunami — Older Adults and Mental Health Care". The New England Journal of Medicine. 368 (6): 493–6. doi:10.1056/nejmp1211456. PMID 23343039.
^"Preparing for the 'silver tsunami'". Apa.org. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
^"Let the reader think of the burden': Old Age and the Crisis of Capacity" (PDF). Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. 4: 1–16. 2012.
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