PUBLIC HEALTH AND AGING

Health Economics and Aging

Objectives: In this paper, aging with its different dimensions is discussed. The characteristics of elderly's life in relation to individual, social, and changes meet aging together with attitudes toward it and major components of elderly are explained. Disease and burden of disease of aging as a central to the areas of Health and Health Economics will be emphasized. The influential factors on ...

Health Literacy and Aging

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Public Health and Aging Quality of Life at the End of Life: The Public Health Perspective

The promotion of '= quality of life for dying individuals and their survivors is integral to the achievement of the Healrhy People 2010 goal of increasing the quality and years of healthy life. With death from chronic terminal illness common, individuals and families frequendy experience the negative consequences of terminal decline for long periods of time, and our healthcare system often does...

Aging, Health, and Public Policy: Demographic and Economic Perspectives

Aging in two languages: Implications for public health.

With the population aging and a dramatic increase in the number of senior citizens, public health systems will be increasingly burdened with the need to deal with the care and treatment of individuals with dementia. We review evidence demonstrating how a particular experience, bilingualism, has been shown to protect cognitive function in older age and delay onset of symptoms of dementia. This p...