Demography and Societal Ageing

Demography and the Coronavirus Pandemic

Abstract. One of the most urgent policy issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe concerns the extent and ways in which demographics have determined different patterns of mortality between groups and regions, and whether and how the pandemic and its economic consequences will affect population dynamics in the future. Post-pandemic policy evaluations on the spread of COVID-19 and the im...

Population Ageing in Central and Eastern Europe: Societal and Policy Implications

Population ageing is one of the most significant demographic processes, with long-term consequences which are already beginning to affect many countries around the world, most noticeably in Europe. There are several definitions of population ageing. One of them refers to an increased percentage of people older than 60 or 65 in the total population. Underlying this simple definition are a large ...

James Vaupel: an innovator in the demography of ageing. Interview by Samuel Loewenberg.

www.thelancet.com Vol 374 October 3, 2009 1139 James W Vaupel’s career has always been about transcending the limits of his fi eld, demography. As the founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, Vaupel has helped to revolutionise the statistically bound fi eld by taking a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates both human and non-human biolog...

Ageing and vascular ageing.

There is an age related decline in various physiological processes. Vascular ageing is associated with changes in the mechanical and the structural properties of the vascular wall, which leads to the loss of arterial elasticity and reduced arterial compliance. Arterial compliance can be measured by different parameters like pulse wave velocity, augmentation index, and systemic arterial complian...

Demography and archaeology.