Healthy ageing: moving forward

Healthy ageing: moving forward

Healthy ageing: ageing safely.

The population of the developed world is steadily ageing. In the European Union, approximately 22% of persons are over 60 years of age and this is projected to increase to more than 27% by the year 2020. This has major implications for health care resources and the productive workforce. Ageing is accompanied by a decline in the physiological reserve of all organ systems, compromising homeostasi...

Moving Forward

.......Having reached the end of my second term as editor in chief, the time has come for Micro to move forward to the next phase of its evolution. I am delighted to announce that Dr. Erik Altman from IBM Research is the new Micro EIC. Erik is an accomplished and highly respected industry architect and researcher who has held numerous leadership positions within the computing community. He has ...

Moving forward.

Healthy Ageing

2. Life Expetancy at birth-In the early 1950's average expetancy at birth worldwise was 47 years and in several countries it was almost 80. 3. In India life expetancy in 1995 was 62. It has currently a population of 60 millions elderly persons i.e. 6% of its total population. It is expected to be 150 million by the year 2025 i.e. about 12% population. 4. Table (attached) gives this information ...