Aged Care
What’s Next for Senior Living? 3 Innovative Concepts
This US article discusses the need for developers to create new housing options for the increasingly disparate ageing population.
It examines three core areas that must be addressed. Multi-Generational Living, Urban-Core Simplicity and Excitement, and It Takes a Village.
2015
Chinese Demographics and Aging, Health, and Place
China faces the need for major reforms in healthcare capacity, coverage, affordability and access for rural populations, migrant workers, and an increasingly aging population.
There is a need for more diversity in housing types, increased public infrastructure, and innovative social welfare programs for the rapidly growing aged population, who may no longer be able to depend on children or govern
2015
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Aging Population in China: Having a Senior Moment
The elderly care market in China is still in its infancy, despite the imminent demand of its rapidly aging population.
At present, almost all nursing homes are publicly funded. This article looks at the opportunities for International businesses to provide alternatives to this model.
2014
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National overview of the retirement village sector
The dramatic increase in the number of Australians turning 65 over the next 20 years is now an established demographic fact. Treasury projects a doubling of the seniors’ population by 2 050, with an economically signi fi cant reduction in the ratio of t axpayers to retirees.
2014
Work, care, retirement and health: Ageing "agendas"
This review examines existing literature regarding the ageing Australian population, increasing rates of women’s participation in paid work, the care economy and the retirement income system.
Australia’s ageing population makes the issue of how men and women approach retirement a pressing public pol icy issue.
2014
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Nursing homes in Cuba are few, poor and underserved
A comparative study of the results between the Census of Population and Housing and the Health Statistical Yearbooks for 2002 and 2012, reveal the increase in the number of elderly people in Cuba and the decreased ability of nursing homes to care for them.
In 2013, only 1 in 274 of the elderly had the possibility of being received full time into nursing homes.
2014
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Sisters, other Catholics, care for elderly in Cuba
The need for care and accommodation for an ageing population of the poor in Cuba is being addressed by the Catholic Church. This article looks at two different care models.
2014
Smart Cities and the Ageing Population
Due to a growing number of elderly people, it is a necessity to create the cities that are aware of the special needs of all their citizens including the needs of aging populations.
2014
The age of ageing: Barcelona’s growing elderly population
Barcelona is ageing fast. The elderly cohort constitutes a greater proportion of Barcelona’s population than ever before, and, perhaps most worryingly, face an increased likelihood of living alone.
2014
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