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Depression in Later-life: An Overview of Assessment and Management.
The elderly are the fastest growing segment of the global population with the number of people age 60 or older having doubled since 1980 and the number of people age 80 or older expected to increase more than 4-fold (to 395 million) by the year 2050. While depression is overall less common in older people compared to younger people, there are sub-groups of elderly, such as those with significan...
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insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1355-5146,1472-1481
DOI: 10.1192/apt.10.2.131