Healthy ageing: ageing safely

Healthy ageing: ageing safely.

The population of the developed world is steadily ageing. In the European Union, approximately 22% of persons are over 60 years of age and this is projected to increase to more than 27% by the year 2020. This has major implications for health care resources and the productive workforce. Ageing is accompanied by a decline in the physiological reserve of all organ systems, compromising homeostasi...

Healthy Ageing

2. Life Expetancy at birth-In the early 1950's average expetancy at birth worldwise was 47 years and in several countries it was almost 80. 3. In India life expetancy in 1995 was 62. It has currently a population of 60 millions elderly persons i.e. 6% of its total population. It is expected to be 150 million by the year 2025 i.e. about 12% population. 4. Table (attached) gives this information ...

Healthy ageing: moving forward

Equity and healthy ageing

Equity and healthy ageing Sridhar Venkatapuram, Hans-Jörg Ehni & Abha Saxena a Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, England. b Institute for Ethics and the History of Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. c Global Health Ethics Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Corresponding to Sridhar Venkatapuram (em...

Ageing and immunity: addressing immune senescence to ensure healthy ageing.

Among the greatest achievements of the 20th century, prolongation of life expectancy has been the result of improved health conditions, decreased childhood mortality, lower incidence of infectious diseases. The consequence is the rapid ageing of the world population, with the elderly representing over 25% of the entire population by the year 2030, of which 75% living in less developed countries...