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Levels and Trends of Population Ageing and the Situation of Older Persons in Asia and the Pacific
Over recent decades, Asia and the Pacific has experienced significant demographic changes. Rapid fertility and mortality reductions have occurred,...
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Financial Demography: How Population Aging Affects Financial Markets
Financial demography analyzes effects of demographic change in general, and population ageing in particular, on financial markets. These effects are...
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Architecture and ageing: lessons learned from a cohousing project
Considering population ageing and a housing system in crisis, new residential responses for older people are being sought and claimed. To meet their...
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Continent Wise Intersectional Analysis on Ageing
Persistent advancement in healthcare has increased the average life expectancy globally in the last few decades, increasing the proportion of the...
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Variabilities in Ageing Trends: Questions and Concluding Remarks
The concept behind ageing gracefully and increasing longevity are perhaps the two essential components behind redefining well-being and setting up...
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Ageing, Metabolic Dysfunction, and the Therapeutic Role of Antioxidants
The gradual ageing of the world population has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity and metabolic diseases,...
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Ageing at Molecular Level: Role of MicroRNAs
The progression of age triggers a vast number of diseases including cardiovascular, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders. Regardless of our...
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Housing and Ageing Policies in Chinese and Global Contexts Trends, Development, and Policy Issues
Motivated by the rapid increase in housing demand and the population of older adults worldwide, this book provides an interdisciplinary and...
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Caregiving intensity and its association with subjective views of ageing among informal caregivers with different sociodemographic background: a longitudinal analysis from Germany
We analysed whether care time, burden and range of caregiving tasks were associated with informal caregivers’ subjective views of ageing (measured as...
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Chronic Kidney Disease and the Exposome of Ageing
The gap between improvements in lifespan and age-related health is widening. Globally, the demographic of ageing is increasing and there has emerged...
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Duration, numerosity and length processing in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease
People constantly process temporal, numerical, and length information in everyday activities and interactions with the environment. However, it is...
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Ageing in Place: Older People Identify Barriers to Remaining in Low-Density Areas
Studies involving older people as co-investigators are limited in Portugal. The main objectives of this article are: (I) Analyze the barriers...
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Housing and Ageing Issues: Key Developments and Concerns
This collection reviews current research in the multidisciplinary and global fields of housing and ageing. An array of scholars in economics,...
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Introduction: Ageing in Times of the Pandemic – Findings from the German Ageing Survey (DEAS)
This book contains reports written by scientists from the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA) on the situation of people in the second half of life...
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Will the COVID-19 pandemic affect population ageing in Australia?
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extensive disruption to economies and societies across the world. In terms of demographic processes, mortality has...
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Bone Cells Metabolic Changes Induced by Ageing
Bone is a living organ that exhibits active metabolic processes, presenting constant bone formation and resorption. The bone cells that maintain...
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Childhood adversity and healthy ageing: a study of the Chinese older population
This study examines the relationship between childhood adversities and healthy ageing in the Chinese older population. The data come from the China...
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Health system reforms and the needs of the ageing population—an analysis of recent policy paths and reform trends in Finland and Sweden
Population ageing with an increasing number of people experiencing complex health and social care needs challenges health systems. We explore whether...
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Population and Demography
This chapter on population and demography provides a description of population growthPopulationgrowth, fertility, mortality, and migration trends...
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Population Ageing and Community-Based Old Age Care Supply in China
The Chinese society is becoming old before becoming rich. It is also experiencing major social transitions such as smaller household sizes,...