Generally ageing of population is defined as the relative increase in the number of elderly. This process is the result of declining fertility and increasing life expectancy of elderly population. In today’s Pakistan, fertility has started declining and life expectancy of elderlies has been increasing and it is expected that in future both these processes will gain momentum, resulting into many...

By using infonnation on state of birth in the 1990 Census of the United States, the authors create a variable serving as a proxy for the distribution of adult children in 1985. This variable is then used in a two-level nested logit model to explain the 1985 90 interstate primary migration of elderly black people and elderly white people within the context of environmental amenities and other fa...

Objectives Spinal sagittal alignment has been reported that it is highly associated with health related QOL in adult spinal deformity patients. Optimal sagittal alignment is critical for the efficient function of the musculoskeletal system. In Japan as aging country, a number of elderly people with spinal deformity seems to be increasing. In general, sagittal alignment of elderly people is more...

introduction: regarding the increasing number of elderly people, their quality of life becomes more important. spiritual well-being is one of the most important aspects of health status which has often been neglected in some nations. this study aims to identify the relationship between spiritual well-being and quality of life among the elderly people residing of zahedan city in 2016. methods: t...

Myasthenia gravis is probably commoner than previously suspected, the annual incidence being nearer 9-10/million than earlier figures of 2-4/million. The current study found an annual incidence in Croyden of 9.1 per million (95% confidence limits 5.7-13.8 per million). Of the 22 patients (59%) seen in Croyden with newly diagnosed myasthenia gravis during the past 7 years, 13 were aged over 60. ...

background : this study was to investigate the health literacy and influencing factors of older population in pension institution of xinjiang, china. methods : elderly people were selected from 44 pension institutions in urumqi, changji, karamay and shihezi and from september 2011 to june 2012 using random layer sampling method. the investigation was carried out by chi-nese citizen health liter...

This paper estimates the markup for the Mexican manufacturing sector to detect the impact of trade liberalization on market power. Using Hall’s proposal that states that a procyclical Solow residual is an indication of market power, this research estimates the markup for different periods to detect the change in market power after trade liberalization was implemented. We account for the potenti...

MOST PEOPLE AGREE that stock prices sometimes behave in strange ways. Going beyond this simple observation typically proves more difficult. For at least the past quarter century, economists have been well aware that the variation of stock prices does not nicely match the familiar bell-shaped normal distribution.1 The problem is too many extreme movements. Very large increases or decreases would...

Elderly people seem to encounter more problems than people from other age groups do, when using consumer-electronics products and their accompanying manuals. This may be due to the absence of some kinds of information. In this study effects of the absence of different information types in instructions on action performance were explored for different age groups. Younger (aged 20-30 y.) and elde...

objectives: the main goal of this studywas to determine the ability of elderly adults abstract to selectively allocate attentional demands on walking during secondary motor and cognitive tasks. methods and materials: in this prospective three factors mixed design, 33 elderly adultswithout a history of falls and 23 elderly adults with a history of falls were asked to performtimed up and go test ...