Active Ageing Level of Older Persons: Regional Comparison in Thailand

Active Ageing Level of Older Persons: Regional Comparison in Thailand

Active ageing level and its discrepancy in different regions (Bangkok, Central, North, Northeast, and South) of Thailand have been examined for prioritizing the policy agenda to be implemented. Attempt has been made to test preliminary active ageing models for Thai older persons and hence active ageing index (AAI, ranges from 0 to 1) has been estimated. Using nationally representative data and ...

Older people and 'active ageing': Subjective aspects of ageing actively.

Following a critical overview of the active ageing concept, a thematic decomposition of 42 transcribed interviews with British people aged 72 years and over indicates that active ageing is understood in relation to physical, cognitive, psychological and social factors, but that these co-exist in complex combinations. The notion of activity in active ageing is grasped in relation to an active/pa...

Ageing in Japan: the Health and Wealth of Older Persons

World population growth has been slowing down, primarily as a result of the reduction in fertility in the majority of countries, both developed and developing. In 1970-1975 there were just 19 countries with below-replacement fertility, but by 2000-2005 there were 65. Over the same time period, the number of countries having very low fertility─that is, a total fertility lower than 1.3 children p...

PART ONE Older Persons: A Regional Overview

Mortality of older persons living alone: Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies

BACKGROUND We investigated the association of living alone with mortality among older persons, independently of marital, health and other factors, and explored its effect modification by age group, sex, marital status and physical functional disability. METHOD Using data from 8 years of mortality follow up (1 September 2003 to 31 December 2011) of 2553 participants in the Singapore Longitudin...