Preface: Sociolinguistic Issues in Ageing

Ethical issues in ageing.

Population ageing, in both the developed and developing world, has put increasing demands on health resources; this has brought to the fore various ethical issues related to ageing. This paper examines moral issues that confront people as they grow old as well as those who are involved with them. The concepts of autonomy, dignity, justice and intergenerational solidarity are explored. Living wi...

Malaysia's ageing issues.

According to United Nations estimates, the population of the elderly 60 years and over in the world will reach 1.2 billion by the year 2025, the majority of whom will be in developing countries l . A major factor in the ageing of a population is fertility decline and statistics indicate that f~rtility for Malaysian females has been declinini,3. The implementation of development and health progr...

Issues concerning sarcopenia in ageing adults.

Sir, Cruz-Jentoff et al. present a valuable review of the difficult field of clinical measurements of sarcopenia [1]. However, several problems remain that limit full acceptance of their calculations. First, all or most of the current methods employed for measurement of muscle mass or fat-free mass (FFM) have associated assumptions and technical issues, and questionable accuracy in assessing sm...

PREFACE

Preface: semantic and conceptual issues in geographic information systems

Recent advances in information technologies have increased the production, collection, and diffusion of geographical data, thus favoring the design and development of geographic information systems (GIS). Nowadays, GIS are emerging as a common information infrastructure that penetrate into more and more aspects of our society. This has given rise to new methodological and data engineering chall...