The Max Planck Emeritus Group "Economics of Aging" headed by Prof. Dr. h.c. Axel Börsch-Supan, PhD, is dedicated to the following topics:

1. Research on pension and social policy draws on the pension insurance models developed at MEA and international comparative data. Current policy proposals are evaluated and expenditure and revenue projections for the statutory pension scheme are produced.
2. The Life-Cycle Decisions division addresses issues relating to very old age, particularly the planning and financing of care, as part of the EU Commission-funded project "BB-Future: The Care Wave and the Future of the Baby Boomers and Their Children".
3. The Health section examines the socio-economic determinants of chronic diseases based on data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The focus is on data on dementia from the SHARE-HCAP study conducted by MEA, as well as the SHARE biomarker data on diabetes, obesity and chronic kidney disease collected by MEA.

The Max Planck Emeritus Group works in close cooperation with the "Munich Research Institute for the Economics of Aging and SHARE Analyses" (MEA), which formed part of this Institute as the "Munich Center for the Economics of Aging" from 2011 - 2022 and is now being continued as an independent scientific institution.