Ageing International articles

Recent articles from Ageing International

AGEING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... Most of the developing countries, compared to the developed world, are in a comparatively poorer economic condition. The greying of the Third World, whose impact will become salient from the third decade of the new millennium, is fraught with a host of problems, some of which appear...

LETTERS.
March 22, 2000... Dear Editor: Please share this potentially life-saving information with your readers and their doctors, especially during cold and flu season when people at risk are most vulnerable. Each year 40,000 adults die from pneumococcal diseases like pneumonia, blood infection (bacteremia)...

Briefs.
March 22, 2000... International WHO Warns: Hip Fractures on Rise The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning of an impending epidemic of hip fractures, a common but debilitating injury that already costs health systems more than $40 billion annually in Europe and North America alone. WHO...

INTRODUCTION.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The demographic transitions that took place in the developed countries during years gone by have now shifted scene to the developing countries--with the difference that, in the latter case, similar processes are being compacted in a shorter time frame. By 2020, 700 million of the world's...

AGEING IN INDIA: SOME KEY ISSUES.
March 22, 2000... In the forthcoming decades, there will be a tremendous increase in the number of elderly in India, with their rate of increase being faster than that of the total population. How is the country going to manage this huge elderly population, given its poor resources and standard of living? What...