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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"population aging"”.
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FAMILY AND UNPAID CARE IN THE CONTEXT OF POPULATION AGING
… numerous social challenges have accompanied population aging. This dissertation draws on data from the United States and the United Kingdom to examine the social dimensions of family and care in the context of population aging. In the first chapter, I use data from the UK Household …
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Aging America: Essays on Population Aging and the Physical and Economic Landscapes in the United States
Major population shifts shape both economic and physical landscapes of nations because demographic and economic drivers are inextricably linked. This study follows a three essay approach focused on the impact of population aging on two broad categories, physical and economic development in the …
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A Directed Acyclic Graph Demonstrating The Effects Of Population Aging On Saving And Interest Rates In Europe
Population aging in Europe and other parts of the industrialized world will have significant effects on labor supplies, saving rates, and by extension investment and interest rates. This thesis examines a number of economic studies that attempt to project the impacts of population aging to European …
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Building a national technology and innovation infrastructure for an aging society
… innovation and implementation in sustaining an aging society, and examines the need for a comprehensive national technology and innovation infrastructure in the U.S., capable of supporting the development and use of technologies by the aging population and their caregivers. The pervasiveness of …
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Return to Work After Retirement: Contributing Factors and Health Implications
… nations, including Canada, is that of population aging. Because of fears that this trend could result in labour force shortages, many national governments and international organizations have encouraged policies aimed at prolonging the working life. This thesis builds on work that has …
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Data-Driven Assessment of Digital Age Inclusion: Topic Modeling Seoul’s Digital Governance Platform to Evaluate Elderly Representation
This paper examines the intersection of population aging and digital civic government in Seoul, South Korea. As cities worldwide digitize and age simultaneously, understanding elderly citizens' representation in digital governance platforms becomes critical for inclusive urban governance. As a …
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Brand Communities and Well-being: Learning to Age in a Red Hat
… outnumber older males and with the baby boomer population aging over 65, this segment is becoming more influential. Yet there is surprisingly little marketing research that focuses on this older female segment, their lived experiences, and their well-being. Working within the tradition of …
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Konflikt rolí žen ze sendvičové generace pracujících v pomáhajících profesích
… least one dependent child, care for at least one aging elderly person and work in the helping professions. The expected number of participants in the empirical survey is 60. The aim of the empirical investigation will be to analyse the conflict between work and family among women from the sandwich …
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Development and Implementation of a Succession Plan for the Nursing Department in a Community Hospital
… to fill the gaps in the nurse leadership population. Aging nurse leaders are leaving the profession and thus are creating gaps which need to be filled (Stichler, 2008). The unavailability of respective schools and negative perceptions of nurses regarding the healthcare sector leads to the …
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Prediction model for cognitive decline in older adults living in the community
INTRODUCTION: Because of rapid population aging cognitive decline and dementia in the older population are recognized as major public health problems. The purpose of this study was to identify demographic, health behavioral, medical and genetic factors associated with cognitive decline; and to …
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Women's Time Poverty: Differences by Family Structure, Employment, and Gender Ideology
… time in household activities and childcare time. Population aging means working adults are more likely to care for their parents and older relatives. Changes in the workplace, including an increase in nonstandard employment and education related inequality in work hours and income, suggest a …
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Health Expenditures, Time to Death, and Age: A Study of Individual-level, Longitudinal Data to Identify the Combined Role of Age and Mortality in Determining Health Utilization of the Elderly
… is great concern about the potential impact of aging populations on health care systems in the developed world, evidence from recent decades has shown at best a weak relationship between population aging and health expenditures at the aggregate level. This thesis explores the literature that …
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Rediscovering Demography. How research, politics, and the media built awareness around the “aging society” in Germany
Awareness and political action to address an aging population in Germany have been slow to develop. Germany’s history with population policies and the use of research from the field of demography to justify the actions of the “Third Reich” created a unique situation where discussion of such issues …
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An AFE based embedded system for physiological computing
… system will be burdened because of the growing aging population. Aging and stress result in cardiovascular diseases that cost around seventeen million lives globally every year. To control cardiovascular ailments, at-home monitoring of blood pressure is very important which helps diet control …
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Exploring Psychosocial Factors as Proxies for Attachment: Associations with Functional Health Outcomes in Older Adults
<p>Globally, the population of older adults is rapidly growing as the “Boomer” generation's lifeline becomes the longest in history, and global birth rates fall to an all-time low. In the past decade, urban areas across the United States have experienced a significant increase in the median age, …
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Neural and perceptual correlates of closed-loop sensorimotor training: basic and applied studies
… mismatch is expected to worsen secondary to population aging. Next, once patients are identified as having a hearing loss, the treatments that are provided (hearing aids) do not sufficiently address their primary complaint, namely that they have trouble hearing in noisy environments. To begin …
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Forecasting The Burden Of Dementia In The United States
… by dementia is expected to rise in response to population aging, although recent studies have reported declines in the age-specific risk of dementia across sequential birth cohorts. The underlying mechanisms driving this decline remain unclear, nor is it clear whether and to what extent these …
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Effects of Resistance Training on aged Skeletal Muscle and Mitochondrial Function
With the aging of the baby boom population and an increased life expectancy, individuals aged 65 years and older are the fastest growing segment of our population. Aging brings about changes in skeletal muscle such as reduced muscle strength and mass, as well as cellular deficits such as increased …
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Retention of Post-Secondary Graduates in their City of Study
… crisis characterized by low fertility rates, population aging, and stark regional disparities in growth, with rural and smaller urban communities experiencing acute brain drain and labor shortages. While postsecondary graduates, both domestic and international, represent a strategic pool of …
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Senatvės pensijų užtikrinimo problematika bei iššūkiai gerovės ekonomikai Lietuvoje /
… aspects from the theoretical part, such as population aging. In recent years, the number of old age pension recipients in Lithuania has increased. The extension of the retirement age is leading to a rise in the number of people taking early retirement. The average old age pension in …
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