China: awakening giant developing solutions to population aging.

Aging of a giant: a stochastic population forecast for China, 2001-2050

Evaluation indices of hepatitis-related hepatic cirrhosis and their relations to postoperative awakening time

 Abstract Objective: To investigate the anesthesia-postoperative awakening time (AT) of hepatitis- related cirrhosis patients and their relations to grading scores, portal venous pressure (PVP), prealbumin (PA), and age, to predict postoperative AT and provide a basis for adjustment of anesthetic doses during operation. Methods: Atotal of 71 patients with hepatic cirrhosis and hypersplenism at ...

Investigating mental health status and prevalence of suicidal ideation in the elderly

As a result of improving health science, the elderly population has increased. The World Health Organization (WHO) mentions the age of 60 as the starting point for aging, and it has also been shown that aging has the highest development rate, particularly in developing nations, according to worldwide stats among distinct age groups. Due to the improvement of health science, the population of el...

Humor attenuates the cortisol awakening response in healthy older men.

This study examined the impact of an important factor contributing to successful aging, humor, on post-awakening cortisol levels among a group of 45 older men whose ages ranged from 64 years to 86 years (mean=73.6 years). Four saliva samples were collected from the participants for 2 days immediately after waking and every 15 min thereafter for three times. Cortisol data of the 2 days were aggr...

Government’s Role in Meeting the Long-Term Care Needs in Developing Aging China: A Public-Private Partnership Pathway

China is encountering essential socio-demographic changes with respect to population aging and family structure transition. A case in point is long-term healthcare, especially to those less developed areas in Western and Central China. The increasing old population will assuredly place greater demands on the system of long-term care in China, but the magnitude of the problem has been the subjec...