Policy’s reforms for meeting aging population needs in Lithuania

Meeting future health and long-term care needs of an aging population.

The most dramatic reduction in spending growth from 1999 to 2002 is an effect of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA).The BBA is expected to make a significant downpayment on Medicare’s future by achieving $116 billion in savings from 1998 to 2002 and $394 billion over the 10-year period from 1998 to 2007. It also extended the projected insolvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund ...

Long-Term Health Care Insurance Challenges: Meeting the Needs of an Aging Population

Meeting population needs for mental health—the Chinese example

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-0829.2012.03.009 Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, UK Correspondence: [email protected] Moving from an institutional model of mental health care to a community oriented system of care has long been recognized as desirable because of the improved health and social outcomes generally achieved by avoiding institutionalization, and the enhanced stimulat...

Substance Abuse in Aging Population

substance abuse' specially opiates and prescribed drugs are spreading among the older adults. Most of the time it begins as an attempt to medicate chronic pains, medical conditions and loneliness. In other instances, it simply is the continuation of a problem that begun in young adulthood. But scholars and specialists in both fields of Addiction and Gerontology, rather neglected this fast growi...

The Phenomenon of Population Aging in Iran

Elham Fathi Statistical Center of Iran   Abstract. In the past, few people reached old age, but in todaychr(chr('39')39chr('39'))s world, advances in technology and health have allowed people to live longer and die at an older age, so Now more people can experience aging. On the other hand, since almost all countries of the world have gone through or are going through a period of high fertilit...