I n 1999, I led a team of Intel social scientists in an anthropological study of 100 households in the US and Europe that had been early adopters of broadband technology. One of the participants in this study was Sheila, a schoolteacher who had been the first person on her block to get high-speed Internet access because she wanted to videoconference with her granddaughter, who lived three time ...

We merge two methodologies, prospective measures of population aging and probabilistic population forecasts. We compare the speed of change and variability in forecasts of the old age dependency ratio and the prospective old age dependency ratio as well as the same comparison for the median age and the prospective median age. While conventional measures of population aging are computed on the b...

Clin. Pract. (2014) 11(2), 221–231 ISSN 2044-9038 part of As we move into the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, this illness, once considered nearly always fatal, is now viewed as a chronic disease in most industrialized nations, due to advances in treatment. Patients with HIV are growing older and the number of infected patients over the age of 50 years is growing steadily. With this shift in...

background: iran, a low- to middle-income country, has experienced considerable socioeconomic changes in 20 th century, which their impacts on the adult heights has not been assessed deeply by now. this article aims to quantify the temporal varia­tions of height (with respect to shrinkage of height due to aging) and its deterministic factors in iranian population born be­tween 1940 and 1984. me...

We quantify the role of population aging in structural transformation process. Household-level data from United States show that fraction expenditures devoted to services increases with household age. use a shift-share decomposition and quantitative model US accounted for about fifth observed increase service share consumption between 1982 2016. The contribution rise is same size as real income...