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Showing 1 to 20 of 405 for “"old age"”.
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Old age mortality in South Africa
… estimates the mortality of the South African oldest old age population (in five year age groups from age 75 up to the open age interval 100 and above) and in the process re-estimates the numbers of people in the population at these ages at the time of the 1996 and 2001 censuses, and the 2007 …
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The State and Old Age Pensions: An Investigation of the 1927 Old Age Pension Act of Canada
… reality underlying them. The introduction of old age pensions in Canada is studied from this perspective. Of importance are the Marxist concepts of commodity and value, class, and the structuralist and instrumentalist interpretations of state power. Through a class trajectory model of class …
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Theory of Mind and Metamemory in Old Age
… the connection between these abilities in older adults, as it has been examined in young children (Lockl & Schneider, 2007). Twenty-three older adults (mean age = 67) and 22 young adults (mean age = 19) completed two theory of mind tasks and a metamemory questionnaire. The theory of mind …
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"Is old age stigma? Ageing identity in Lithuania" /
While population ageing is attracting ever more attention of international scientific community and social policy, its cultural and communicative aspects remain underinvestigated. The goal of the dissertation is to investigate the old age (ageing) identity in Lithuania, applying the sociological …
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Old-age hippocampal sclerosis in the aged population
Old-age hippocampal sclerosis (HS), characterised by severe neuron loss in hippocampal CA1, is a poorly understood cause of dementia. At present no objective pathological HS criteria exist. In life HS is commonly diagnosed as Alzheimer's disease. HS aetiology is unclear, although it has been …
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Old age mortality in South Africa, 1985-2011
… trend in population mortality rates at advanced ages in South Africa is complicated by problems with both the population and death data. Population and death data, particularly in developing countries, often suffer from age misreporting - age exaggeration and digit preference. Also, censuses may …
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Analysing the fiscal sustainability of Namibia`s old age grant
… and sufficient social security pension in old age. In Namibia, Article 95 of the Constitution guarantees all senior citizens a regular pension sufficient to maintain a decent standard of living. The provision of a universal non-contributory social pension is critical in addressing elderly …
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Old Age in Venice and the Terraferma, c.1550-1700
… by elderly noblemen. While the key role of age – especially old age, vecchiezza – in structuring the political life of the city is familiar, historians have overlooked how old age was defined and what it meant outside of elite circles, and more crucially how age affected everyday social and …
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Old age pension as a means of poverty alleviation in Lesotho
This study seeks to investigate the impact of the old age pension in Lesotho in alleviating poverty among the elderly people and its impact to promote their well-being. Most of the elderly people depend on the social security pensions because they lack opportunities to advance themselves socially …
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A nomination approach to the study of wisdom in old age
… with 78 community dwelling men and women, aged 55 and over, who had been nominated for their wisdom by their peers. The nominators and 22 participants who nominated themselves as wise functioned as comparison groups. Measures of personality, intelligence, emotional awareness, paradigm …
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Economic Aspects of Old-Age Assistance in the State of Ohio
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Psychiatric symptoms and disorders in old age: prevalence, course and diagnostic thresholds
… as well as their corresponding subthreshold symptoms, in order to explore the border between psychopathology and normality in the general population of older people. Data came from population studies of older people in Gothenburg. Participants completed a semi-structured psychiatric …
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A haunted society: Old age pensions in Iceland from a gender perspective
The topic of this thesis is old age pensions from a gender perspective. The research is quantitative; statistics on the economic situation of both genders are presented, and conclusions drawn about older women’s situations in regard to pensions and the future prospects of women of working age. …
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