Ageing International articles from March 22 2000

Ageing International archives from March 22 2000

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

GROWING OLD IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA.
March 22, 2000... South Africans grow old in a variety of ways. Historically, its people were classified in four racial groups, and dissimilar opportunities were available to blacks, coloureds, and Indians, as compared to those for whites, for self-advancement...

THE CASE IN HONG KONG.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... Hong Kong experienced a massive increase in its elderly population in recent decades with an average life expectation of 80 years and a majority of them being widows the need for elder care services has risen considerably. A variety of...

AGEING IN BRAZIL.
March 22, 2000... Brazil is experiencing a rapid and intense demographic transition. The industrialization that started in the 1940s brought on fast urbanization. The country is characterized by considerable socioeconomic inequalities and significant regional...

TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEEDS OF ELDERLY GHANAIANS.
March 22, 2000... This article by author Osei K. Darkwa, whose writings on Ghana have previously appeared in Ageing International, discusses the health, caregiving, socioeconomic and service needs of elderly persons who live in Ghana. Brief sociodemographic...

CITIZENSHIP AND UNIVERSAL DESIGN.
March 22, 2000... One of the main topics discussed at IFA's Fourth Global Conference on Ageing in Montreal was that of Universal Design. As author Sandhu notes, Universal Design is not yet a coherent and systematic approach to designing for people; it has many...

MULTIGENERATIONAL LIVING: DESIGN FOR AGEING.
March 22, 2000... In this article, author Parker presents another look at the IFA Fourth Global Conference on Ageing theme of Universal Design. With people living longer, increasing opportunities arise for three and more generations (grandparents, parents,...

WOMEN AND ELDERLY WOMEN IN THE MASS MEDIA: SOME PRELIMINARY NOTES.
March 22, 2000... The following article is the result of research done for its presentation at the Symposium, "The Impact of Globalization on the Images of Older Women" an Expert Consultation event that took place at the UN Headquarters, N.Y., on October...

USEFUL RESOURCES ON AGEING.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Practitioners working in the field of ageing and older persons themselves are finding more and more resources available to them via the Internet. The following publications can be either ordered or accessed by using the World Wide Web. ...