Occupational disengagement, social disengagement and retirement have remained very interesting topics of discussion among different professionals; gerontologist, geriatricians, social workers and pension administrators in the developing world. No doubt, this period in life especially in this part of the world, comes (though gradually) with a plethora of physiological, economic and psycho-social...

Background: An increasing burden of chronic disease and associated health service delivery is expected due to the ageing Australian population. Injuries also affect health and wellbeing and have a long-term impact on health service utilisation. There is a lack of comprehensive data on disease and injury in rural and regional areas of Australia. The aim of the Ageing, Chronic Disease and Injury ...

Abstract Ageing Europeans are today healthier than previous generations and often manage to live independently up a high age. The proportion of people 80 years age older has increased significantly, with the risk multi-illness dementia increases. Strong urbanisation processes have changed demographic structure in rural areas, young women men migrated towards urban areas study work, while person...

INTRODUCTION The emergency departments (EDs) of Australian rural hospitals are under stress due to a lack of specialty staff and government funding, and the need to serve large geographic catchment areas. Knowledge of the demographics and other details of patients presenting to these EDs provides a way for rural hospitals to tailor their emergency services; however, there are few published stud...

Within the next 15 – 25 years the UK and Irish populations aged 65 years and over will increase considerably; inversely, the population aged less than 16 years will decrease though at a significantly higher rate. Perception, accessibility, service options, modal choice, urban or rural domiciliary location, income and social inclusion are all factors believed to affect the travel behaviour of ol...

Mexico is undergoing rapid population ageing as a result of its epidemiological transition. This study explores the interface between this rapid population ageing and the burden of cancer. The number of new cancer cases is expected to increase by nearly 75% by 2030 (107,000 additional cases per annum), with 60% of cases in the elderly (aged ≥ 65). A review of the literature was supplemented by ...

introduction the main challenge for health in twenty century was survival, but in the new century the life with a better quality is an important matter. aging is an emotion period in human life and attention to needs in this period is a social necessity. therefore, attention to the quality of life of elders is very important in the social policy. the number of the elderly is increasing across t...

Society’s gradual ageing has significantly affected the need for improvement of care services elderly and people with disabilities. This study aims to understand mechanisms informal provision services, facilitators, barriers such practices on this adaptive mechanism in rural areas Greece. The baseline article is a field that was conducted villages two remote municipalities comparatively analyse...

The modernization of economic activities in mountain areas is conditioned by the physical characteristics territory, weight related to primary sector, infrastructure deficits, low population density, as well declining and ageing population. response this situation has involved implementing a certain degree functional diversification. One aspects that assisted expansion tertiary sector leisure r...