Ageing Society (ageing + society)

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Selected Abstracts


Ageing societies: myths, challenges and opportunities

AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING, Issue 4 2006
Sally Keeling
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


Lessons for an ageing society: the political sustainability of social security systems

ECONOMIC POLICY, Issue 38 2004
Vincenzo Galasso
SUMMARY Politics, ageing and pensions What is the future of social security systems in OECD countries? We suggest that the answer belongs to the realm of politics, and evaluate how political constraints and ageing shape the social security system. The increasing ratio of retirees to workers lowers the rate of returns of unfunded pay-as-you-go social security, and induces citizens to prefer smaller such systems and a larger role for private savings. An ageing electorate, however, increases the relevance of pension spending on the agenda of office-seeking policy-makers and tends to increase the size of unfunded pension systems. Calibrating the strength of these effects for France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US, we find that the latter political aspect always outweighs the former. The relative size of the effects depends on country-specific characteristics and modelling details: when labour market distortions are accounted for the political effect still dominates but becomes less sizeable; the different redistributive character of pension systems and the strength of family ties also play a role in determining politico-economic outcomes. A higher effective retirement age always decreases the size of the system chosen by the voters, often increases its generosity, and may be the only viable solution to pension system problems in the face of population ageing. [source]


Self-care behaviour and related factors in older people with Type 2 diabetes

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, Issue 23 2009
Yu-Ling Bai
Aim., The present study examined the factors related to self-care behaviour in type 2 diabetic patients aged ,65 years. In addition, this study tested the effect of the important explanatory factors on self-care behaviour. Background., Along with the development of an ageing society, diabetes occurs frequently among older people. Diabetes requires continual medical treatment, with patients responsible for self-care. Although the relationships among social support, depression and self-care have been widely studied, little is know about older diabetic patients, especially in Taiwan. Design., A correlational design was adopted. In total, 165 patients recruited using convenience sampling were diabetic outpatients at three hospitals in southern Taiwan from January,March 2005. Methods., The participants were interviewed using the Personal Resource Questionnaire 2000 (PRQ 2000), Diabetes Self-Care Scale and Taiwan Geriatric Depression Scale (TGDS). Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. Result., Self-care behaviour scores were significantly influenced by different gender, education level, economic status and religious beliefs of older diabetic patients. Depression and self-care behaviour were negatively correlated. Social support, education and duration of diabetes significantly affected self-care behaviour, accounting for 35·6% of total variance. Conclusions., Social support plays a vital factor in contributing to the facilitation of self-care behaviour. These analytical findings demonstrate the importance of social support, education and duration of diabetes in determining self-care behaviour for diabetic older diabetic patients and serve as references for future studies of self-care behaviour in type 2 older diabetic patients. Relevance to clinical practice., Implication for nurses highlights the significance of providing patients with social support that will enable them to have good support systems during their disease treatment to enhance self-care abilities and improve quality of life. [source]


Ageing Society Issues in Korea,

ASIAN SOCIAL WORK AND POLICY REVIEW, Issue 1 2009
Sung-Jae Choi
Korean society is facing unprecedentedly higher population ageing, particularly in the first half of the 21st century. The implications of population ageing have a much wider effect than the welfare of the elderly. From a broader and long-term perspective, understanding population ageing may require a new paradigm. Korea has attempted to model its policies for ageing society on those of advanced welfare states, but as these no longer seem viable, Korean policy-makers are searching for more effective and efficient measures to deal with its rapid ageing population. Reflecting a broader and long-term perspective, the Korean government recently produced a comprehensive national policy plan to deal with the consequences of rapid population ageing. This article outlines the phenomenon of population ageing in Korea and the recent development of national policies for population ageing, describing the Korean comprehensive national policy plan for responding to it and examining major issues and problems related to developing and implementing the plan. This article finally suggests a new, age-integrated social system approach to an ageing society. [source]


Research: The challenges of clinical trials in the exclusion zone: The case of the frail elderly

AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING, Issue 2 2008
Iman Ridda
Frail older people have been systematically excluded from randomised controlled trials (RCT). We aim to recruit older, frail hospitalised patients in an RCT and evaluate the frailty index (FI) as a measure to describe the types of people included in the study. We recruited 315 hospitalised patients aged 65 years; age ranged from 60 to 102 years. Baseline assessment scores ranged as follow: Mini-Mental Status Examination from 7 to 30, Barthel index from 5 to 100 and FI from 2 to 24. Total deaths were 20 (6%). We demonstrated that it is feasible to recruit frail older people into RCTs. The FI does not show any ,floor' or ,ceiling' effects. We can measure frailty in an RCT cohort, and we believe that clinical trials should include more frail older people and that the use of an FI can facilitate such trials and generate reliable data to guide future medical practice in a rapidly ageing society. [source]


Community care for an ageing society: Issues, policies and services

AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING, Issue 3 2007
Anna Howe
No abstract is available for this article. [source]