Ageing populations: the challenges ahead
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Research suggests that ageing processes are modifiable and that people are living longer without severe disability, and this finding will be important for the chances to meet the challenges of ageing populations.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2009-10-03 and is currently open access. It has received 3095 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population ageing & Life expectancy.read more
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The World report on ageing and health: a policy framework for healthy ageing.
John R. Beard,Alana Officer,Islene Araujo de Carvalho,Ritu Sadana,Anne Margriet Pot,Jean-Pierre Michel,Peter Lloyd-Sherlock,JoAnne E. Epping-Jordan,Geeske Peeters,Wahyu Retno Mahanani,Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan,Somnath Chatterji +11 more
TL;DR: The first World report on ageing and health is released, reviewing current knowledge and gaps and providing a public health framework for action, built around a redefinition of healthy ageing that centres on the notion of functional ability.
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Protein intake and exercise for optimal muscle function with aging: recommendations from the ESPEN Expert Group
Nicolaas E. P. Deutz,Jürgen M. Bauer,Rocco Barazzoni,Gianni Biolo,Yves Boirie,Anja Bosy-Westphal,Tommy Cederholm,Tommy Cederholm,Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft,Zeljko Krznaric,K. Sreekumaran Nair,Pierre Singer,Daniel Teta,Kevin D. Tipton,Philip C. Calder,Philip C. Calder +15 more
TL;DR: Recommendations are made that daily physical activity or exercise (resistance training, aerobic exercise) should be undertaken by all older people, for as long as possible to help older adults sustain muscle strength and function into older age.
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Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study 2010
Joshua A. Salomon,Haidong Wang,Michael Freeman,Theo Vos,Abraham D. Flaxman,Alan D. Lopez,Christopher J L Murray +6 more
TL;DR: As life expectancy has increased, the number of healthy years lost to disability has also increased in most countries, consistent with the expansion of morbidity hypothesis, which has implications for health planning and health-care expenditure.
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Biodemography of human ageing.
TL;DR: Research by demographers, epidemiologists and other biomedical researchers suggests that further progress is likely to be made in advancing the frontier of survival — and healthy survival — to even greater ages.
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Health, functioning, and disability in older adults—present status and future implications
TL;DR: Examination of reported trends in morbidity and mortality in older adults during the past two decades found some evidence for compression of morbidity, but with different methods, these measures are not directly comparable.
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