Elder maltreatment and abuse of the elderly is found in almost all countries of the world. According to the World Health Organization, elderly abuse is expected to continue to increase, particularly as many countries experience rapidly aging populations. Throughout the world, both elderly men and women are at high risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Although older men are at risk of abuse in about the same proportion as women, elderly women are at higher risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation in cultures where women are devalued. (more…)
Elderly abuse or elderly neglect can be put within the general category of violence that may be designed for different populati ...
The population of man aged over 65 will exceed the number of children under 5 years old in 2040, for the first time in history, ...
The economic status of older adults in the United States today is greatly improved, and there is much diversity of circumstance ...
Not only that the low birth rate leads directly to the aging population, a purely arithmetic on the number of young people, and ...
Spanning twenty-seven independent countries, the populations represent all possible situations in which people aging. The speed ...
The economic status of older adults in the United States today is greatly improved, and there is much diversity of circumstances among different elder populations. In 2004 inflation-adjusted dollars, the median income of elderly households had increased from $13,228 in 1960 to $24,509 in 2004. Since the mid-1950s, poverty, as measured in 2005 by the U.S. Census Bureau’s poverty thresholds, has decreased for all age groups but most noticeably for adults age 65 years and older. (more…)
Developers have built and marketed assisted living primarily for middle- to upper-income older persons—those able to pay $2,000 a m ...
There are now several gay senior housing projects in various stages of development in Seattle, Boston, and Florida. While such ...
The Social Security announced changes for 2012 that will affect Social Security beneficiaries and retired persons receiving a re ...
American aging population makes up a substantial social challenge. These social problems will increase significantly over the n ...
Elder maltreatment and abuse of the elderly is found in almost all countries of the world. According to the World Health Organi ...
Lifestyle and behavioral factors are responsible for a multiple chronic aging diseases and associated to morbidity and mortality tendencies. In the U.S., nearly 50 million adults are smoking. Annually, smoking alone is responsibility for about 400,000 deaths.
As you probably know, anyone who ever try to give up smoking is facing some difficulties most of the time. (more…)
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Abuse of drugs and alcohol is not uncommon among the elderly. The high rate of prescribed medication use, increased physiologic ...
As we grow older, our dietary habits seem to become more deeply entrenched. As a consequence, deficiencies in the diet are perp ...
There are differences on what exactly contribute to quality of life on a personal level from person to person. Although many ol ...
Cancer occurrence rates in a period of time for a given population is expressed in various ways. The incidence rate is a direct mea ...