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Active Ageing and Healthy Ageing
With increasing life expectancy and its potential economic implication, World Health Organization (WHO) has advocated Active Ageing Policy since the...
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Inequity in palliative care: class and active ageing when dying
The purpose of this article is to explore social inequity in palliative care in Denmark, a country that is seen as a stronghold of universal health...
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Active Ageing and Health Status of the Aged Population of Bucharest City, Romania
This paper focuses on the specific problem of the elderly populationElderly population in the context of the demographic ageing processAging process...
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Families at Crossroad: Need for Active Ageing
The concern of human race about growing older is found in fables of children, religious scriptures, and other literature. It is one of the universal...
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Astrocytes in Ageing
Ageing is associated with a morphological and functional decline of astrocytes with a prevalence of morphological atrophy and loss of function. In...
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Stakeholders’ Perspective on Working Towards a Healthy Ageing Society: Evidence from a Rapidly Ageing Context
The combined demographic and epidemiologic transition may significantly challenge the ageing population, especially with a weak health and non-health...
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Clinical Ageing
Ageing is generally characterised by the declining ability to respond to stress, increasing homeostatic...
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What Do You Mean, ‘How Do I Feel about Ageing?’: Exploring Ageing Concepts on the Island of Gozo
Malta is experiencing a strong trend toward population ageing. In 2014, the government implemented an active ageing policy designed to address the...
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Intergenerational Cultural Programs as an Important Element for Active Ageing
The active ageing policy is a social response to challenges caused by demographic and social changes. Active ageing policy is oriented to provide...
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Care and Active Ageing
Demographic ageing is one of the key social and political challenges of recent decades. There are a number of approaches to ageing, depending on...
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Inheritances and work for pay — will the expected wave of bequests undermine active ageing policies?
It is frequently assumed that the inheritance of wealth undermines economic activity. If such an assumption is valid, the expected wave of bequests...
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Active ageing policy in challenging production environments: a case study involving social partners in Spain
In recent years, due to population ageing, the European Union has promoted active ageing policies as a means to encourage workers to delay labour...
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Ageing in Place Classification: Creating a geodemographic classification for the ageing population in England
Population ageing is one of the most significant demographic changes underway in many countries. Far from being a homogenous group, older people and...
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Global Ageing and Lifelong Learning
Global ageing is a significant phenomenon creating enormous challenges for the younger generation due to the generation gap. The generation gap is a...
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Mitochondrial DNA Mutations and Ageing
Mitochondria are subcellular organelles present in most eukaryotic cells which play a significant role in numerous aspects of cell biology. These...
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Sarcopenia and Ageing
Musculoskeletal ageing is a major health challenge as muscles and bones constitute around 55–60% of body weight. Ageing muscles will result in...
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Active Ageing and Quality of Life
This chapter focuses on the essential role of an active ageing strategy for the quality of later life. It argues, in fact, that later life quality is...
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The Proteasome and Ageing
The proteasome is a multi-subunit proteolytic complex that functions to degrade normal proteins for physiological regulation and to eliminate...
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To Start Discussing About Ageing Society
Several studies seem to indicate the consolidation of a new type of social model around the ageing society, where new problems will emerge, new...
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Chronic Inflammation as an Underlying Mechanism of Ageing and Ageing-Related Diseases
Age-related chronic inflammation is characterized as the unresolved low-grade inflammatory process underlying the ageing process and various...