OPINIONS & PERSPECTIVES The need for new models for delivery of therapy intervention to people with a disability in rural and remote areas of Australia ANGELA DEW, CRAIG VEITCH, MICHELLE LINCOLN, JENNIE BRENTNALL, KIM BULKELEY, GISSELLE GALLEGO, ANITA BUNDY & SCOTT GRIFFITHS Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia, and NSW Department of Family & Community Services, Ageing, D...

According to United Nations estimates, the population of the elderly 60 years and over in the world will reach 1.2 billion by the year 2025, the majority of whom will be in developing countries l . A major factor in the ageing of a population is fertility decline and statistics indicate that f~rtility for Malaysian females has been declinini,3. The implementation of development and health progr...

The need for old-age security coverage in rural areas of many developing countries is rapidly increasing for several reasons, including population ageing and the weakening of family support networks. These trends have generated intense interest in policies that might help respond to the growing problem of rural old-age destitution. The focus of our analysis is on one of the most promising alter...

OBJECTIVE Prevalence of hypertension was examined in a widely dispersed (45 110 km(2)) representative group of Ladakhi in Northern India. The influence of hypoxic environment of wide-ranged altitude (2600-4900 m) and lifestyle change on hypertension was studied. METHODS 2800 participants (age 20-94 years) were enrolled. Systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure of ≥90...

Purpose: The aim of the present work was to evaluate the relation between car use and the level of successful ageing of a random sample of older adults living in the Mediterranean basin. Methods: During 2005-2011, 2749 older (aged 65-100 years) from 22 Mediterranean islands and the rural Mani region (Peloponnesus) of Greece were voluntarily enrolled in the MEDIS cross-sectional study. Sociodemo...

Recent literature suggests that the increasingly blurred relationship between paid employment and retirement facilitates a retirement transition period, a life course stage, which may involve a change of residence. The role of such pre-retirement age mobility in the repopulation of rural areas has, however, received relatively little academic scrutiny. This paper draws upon findings from a two-...

Mid-age rural women are likely to be providing care for ageing relatives as well as caring for their grandchildren. Approximately 20% of Mid-age women in all geographic areas provide family care to frail, ill or disabled family members, but 46% of Mid-age women in rural and remote areas provide childcare, compared with 36% in urban areas. Caregivers are more likely to spend some time out of the...

INTRODUCTION The recruitment and retention of health professionals in rural areas is a long-standing concern in Australia. In the context of an ageing rural nursing workforce, recruitment and retention of new graduate nurses is an important issue. OBJECTIVE To explore the role transition for new graduate nurses in rural practice in New South Wales (NSW). METHODS This study utilised a qualit...

To account for differences among rural and urban regions, the OECD has established a regional typology, classifying TL3 regions as predominantly urban (PU), intermediate (IN) or predominantly rural (PR). This typology has proved to be meaningful to better explain regional differences in economic and labour market performance. However, it does not take into account the presence of economic agglo...