more prosperous lives. This is a great achievement reflecting long-term progress in improving standards of living and health through individual endeavour and social investment. More people are living longer after the age of 50 and each generation expects more from the future than their parents and grandparents. But our attitude to ageing and our public services have not yet caught up with the c...

One of the challenges of population ageing is the need for health and social care related to an increased prevalence of (often multiple) long-term conditions and associated functional disability. To meet these needs, the health and social care sectors need to find new ways of delivering quality care with improved outcomes and reduced costs. In other business sectors such as retailing and bankin...

onset of fertility decline move through their adult years towards old age. The result is that the proportion of children in the population falls and the proportion of older people rises. Once the fertility rate settles at a new, lower, level, the age structure of the population will shift (over about 70 years) to reach a new equilibrium with a permanently lower proportion of children and higher...

With a share of people older than 65 years of 16.64 per cent in total population, Croatia is considered a very old country regarding it's population. This percentage is one of the highest in already old Europe. Demographic projections reveal a further increase of share of people older than 65 years in future. There are many causes of this condition. This fact carries negative economic and healt...

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...

Population ageing is one of the most significant demographic processes, with long-term consequences which are already beginning to affect many countries around the world, most noticeably in Europe. There are several definitions of population ageing. One of them refers to an increased percentage of people older than 60 or 65 in the total population. Underlying this simple definition are a large ...