April 29‚2013 Demographics As the population of today’s society continues to live long past retirement age‚ the need and cost for health care including research‚ development‚ and services will be essential. The demand for these critical components within a lifetime that has increased significantly in the last century is important to the health and well-being of all people. The Aging Population Health care issues and challenges that affect the aging population include chronic disease‚ long-term
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A special report on ageing populations June 27th 2009 The Economist June 27th 2009 A special report on ageing populations 1 A slow-burning fuse Also in this section Su er the little children Most of the rich world is short of babies. Page 3 A world of Methuselahs The bene ts‚ and the costs‚ of living longer. Page 4 The silver dollar There is money to be made in the grey market‚ but it takes thought. Page 6 Scrimp and save Pensions will have to become far less generous
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Trisha Bonner Alexia Clutter English Comp. 1 25 March 2012 Telehealth and America’s Aging Population America is facing a crisis. Federal spending on health care is at an all-time high‚ and is projected to continue growing. Two large contributors to this growth are the ever-expanding proportion of senior citizens‚ and the enormous costs of long-term care. A well-received solution‚ seemingly taken right out of the pages of someone’s favorite
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Dylan Kowalchuk Aging in Australia Plymouth State University This paper focuses on aging in Australia‚ the different policies and services for the aging population‚ and provides some examples about what it would be like to age in Australia. First‚ it is important to understand the age care policy in Australia. There are four different components to this policy: the old-aged pension system‚ pursuit of the aging-in-place policy‚ self-funded services and supports‚ and residential and frail aged
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Aging Population Effects on Health Care Health care is a fast evolving field with advancements of technology and treatment options growing every day. The delivery of care has grown and often shifts direction over the years to accommodate changing population demographics and needs of patients. Many factors play a part in the role of health care and medical treatment‚ one of those factors being population demographic changes. When the demographics of a population change it can cause adverse effects
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I. INTRODUCTION II. TREND IN POPULATION AGING IN CHINA III. INCREASE RATE OF TOTAL AND ELDERLY POPULATION IV. IMPACT OF THE RISING ELDERLY ON ECONOMIC SOCIAL SYSTEMS V. ECONOMIC EFFECTS ON CHINA’S ECONOMY VI. CURRENT SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE ELDERLY VII. FUTURE SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE ELDERLY VIII. POSSIBLE ECONOMIC IMPACT ON LABOR‚ FAMILY‚ AND WORKING-AGE
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Japan has the oldest life expectancy in the world. That means people in Japan live a really really long time. Men live to 79 years old. Women live a little over 86 years old. What in the world causes Japanese people to live so long? After WWII‚ Japan had one of the lowest life expectancies in the world‚ which suggests it’s not genetics that keeps them alive for so long (the guy in the picture above just turned 113). It’s not even that Japanese people visit doctors 12+ times a year. The answer is
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of Quantitative Research Successful Aging for the Geriatric Population GizetteKhamphong Washington Adventist University NURS 370 Cheryl Robertson MSN CRNP-A December 16‚ 2013 Successful Aging for the Geriatric Population This review will compare and contrast two related nursing research papers: a cross-sectional descriptive quantitative study by Kozar-Westman et al.(2013)‚ which examined the suitability of using the Successful Aging Inventory (SAI) to assess and describe
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Technology and the future Crystal Jackman Gerontology Education Capstone GEN 497 Lauren Hall-Davis 08/05/2013 This report will cover the significance of technology and the aging population. It will discuss the importance these technological changes will make in the lives of the elderly and the problems that may occur because of these same changes. It is important to study these changes and how they may affect us to prepare for how we can best handle this changing world and prevent
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debates of economic policy‚ in France as well as in the principal industrialized countries. In other words‚ all the large industrialized countries will know a considerable ageing of the population during the next decades. In the academic circles and the business press‚ they believe that the ageing of the population will have important effects on the financial markets following the impact awaited on the rates of saving and the request of the fund’s investments. To develop the subject‚ we will initially
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