Ageing is not yet understood as a demographic as well as socio-economic problem in Nepal with adequate reflection in the policy and plan documents. However, gradual decline in fertility, rapidly increasing technological diffusion along with considerable control in mortality increasing ageing have challenged it’s properly management. Internal conflicts, poor socio-economic and inadequate resourc...

apparent rise in the incidence of infertility in females and the trend shifting towards delayed child bearing brought up the concept of ovarian ageing. women in their early thirties show poor ovarian reserve which is an entity named as early ovarian ageing. early ovarian ageing is mostly genetically determined, but acquired modifiable factors like smoking, or ovarian surgery have some roles. in...

Approximately half the world's population now has replacement-level fertility or below. The UK experience in accommodating to a changing dependency ratio provides some generalizable insights. A mechanistic approach assuming a fixed retirement age and a need to raise fertility or increase immigration in order to maintain pensions at a fixed proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP) is overs...

This article concerns the mental health of older people who have moved from their country of birth – the older immigrant population. In the UK, although the absolute numbers of ethnic elders are relatively small (about 6% of people aged 65 and over were born outside the country), there is a greater concentration of pensioners from ethnic minorities in deprived inner-city areas. Numbers are also...

AIM As the population ages, the number of elderly patients suffering injuries is increasing. Reports from North America have shown an increasing proportion of elderly admissions with a disproportionate number of deaths. However, this trend has not yet been examined in New Zealand. The aim of this study was to determine unique characteristics of geriatric patients as compared to the general trau...

The world’s population is ageing and this presents a major policy issue in the developing world (United Nations, 1991). In Asia, the crisis is an immediate one (World Bank, 1994); China stands out as the most rapidly ageing society, and its population structure will be closer to that of the developed regions by 2025 (United Nations, 1999a, 1999b). In Africa, ageing is a crisis that is just begi...

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Prenatal and peri-natal events play a fundamental role in health, development of diseases and ageing (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)). Research on the determinants of active and healthy ageing is a priority to: (i) inform strategies for reducing societal and individual costs of an ageing population and (ii) develop effective novel prevention strategies. It is important to c...

A pioneer of ageing research, August Weismann has established two rather opposing concepts for aging and even today both gather numerous followers. One is the adaptive concept, according to which ageing has evolved to cleanse the population from old, nonreproductive consumers. The other, non-adaptive concept suggests that ageing is due to greater weight on early survival / reproduction rather t...

The critical question raised by the conference is: ‘What should governments do now about population ageing?’ There is a real prospect that population ageing will bring undesired or potentially catastrophic fi nancial market consequences sometime in the future. That is a possibility raised in several of the papers and it is one that newspaper readers are reminded of a few times every year – at l...