The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing provides a framework to address the challenges faced by older adults. By focusing on the four action areas and enabling factors, we can enhance the health and wellbeing of older people, their families, and communities. This presentation highlights the importance ...
Ageing in (Public) Place As populations age, improving our health-span is an urgent task that has bearing on both improving individual quality of life, as well as managing the increasing strain on our health services. How might we design the places and environments on our doorstep to meet sp...
On no account can we ignore the value of knowledge. 我们绝对不能忽略知识的价值。 Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could...
Second, we introduce a perspective on the ‘individual’ which is usually thought starkly at odds with liberalism, namely that of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. We argue that what is regularly conceived as his critical genealogy of the modern ‘subject’ can easily be reformulated into a...
The entire organization, beginning with top management, strives to achieve excellence in designing, manufacturing and delivering High Q capacitors and proprietary thin film components for niche high frequency applications, while maintaining safe and healthy working conditions. Furthermore, DLI commits to ...
The UN/WHO Decade of Action for Healthy Ageing focus is urgent, and evolving neuroscience provides sufficient data to be strategic in ways that could increase the use of evidence-based interventions. Throughout life, our complex brains are powerfully changed by experience [1], a process termed ...
The community researchers entered our photovoice project with a fair dose of “healthy mistrust”, as to them, it was not to be expected that white academic researchers would acknowledge their knowledge on racism as trustworthy or would support them in speaking out about these issues. “Too ...
With the arrival of the 21st century, Ahonsi said China needed to tackle its ageing population, low birth rate and massive urbanization. UNFPA's main work centered on helping the country move from an administrative approach to client-focused family planning as well as establishing a system for ...
When we build homes as part of a mid or high-density area development, we are building for the long-term. We must do this both in recognition of the multiple and diverse needs of present inhabitants, as well as in anticipation of future residents’ requirements; ageing, shifting household ...
another area is economic and social policies, which form a major part of our agenda. with anageing population and uncertain global conditions, growth will be harder to come by. yet oureconomy must grow to create opportunities for singaporeans and to improve our lives. at thesame time, we mu...