Background: More elders are favoring to stay in their homes and communities as they age in place. In a previous pilot study among older adults, we found four major causes of adverse events leading to an emergency room visit: lack of care coordination, financial barriers to medical care, lack...
Ageing out of place: Health and well-being needs and access to home and aged care services for recently arrived older refugees in Melbourne, Australia. Int J Migration Health Soc Care. 2007;3(1):4-14.Atwell, R., I. Correa-Velez, and S. Gifford, Ageing out of Place: Health and Well...
Ageing is associated with a progressive degeneration of the tissues, which has a negative impact on the structure and function of vital organs and is among the most important known risk factors for most chronic diseases. Since the proportion of the world's population aged >60 years will double...
The health of the Portuguese has improved considerably in the last twenty years. Economic and social transformations that have contributed to the progressive amelioration of problems of feeding, sanitation, hygiene, housing and social conditions in general, as well as health services, have had decisive...
The worldwide increase in older persons demands technological solutions to combat the shortage of caregiving and to enable aging in place. Smart home health technologies (SHHTs) are promoted and implemented as a possible solution from an economic and pra
The unprecedented rise in the population of older adults and the number of seniors living with and managing chronic conditions are straining our institutio
Increased mortality has been observed in mothers and fathers with male offspring but little is known regarding specific diseases. In a register linkage we linked women born 1925–1954 having survived to age 50 (n = 661,031) to offspring and fathers
We concentrate on how ageing was conceptualized, and what this tells us about how ageing societies and bodies are accounted for and understood. Through the dynamic evolution of people and place, we can also come to see that what was once viewed as health promoting can become entangled with ...
2007). Second, it is simple and easy to include question about overall health in both health-specific surveys such as the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the European Health Survey, and in more general surveys such as the European Statistics on Income and ...
With an increased life expectancy for the general population as well as for those ageing with chronic diseases, there are major challenges to the affected individuals and their families, but also to health care and societal planning. Most important, an i