Active aging, that is the idea that policy encourage and enable people to participate actively in social, political and economic life, is a political backwater in Europe. Since demographic aging affects may different policy domains in different ways, the institutional landscapes in which aging and active aging policy takes place are fragmented. This means that two distinct and countervailing in...

BACKGROUND Active aging is central to enhancing the quality of life for older adults, but its conceptualization is not often made explicit for Asian elderly people. Little is known about active aging in older Thai adults, and there has been no development of scales to measure the expression of active aging attributes. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to develop a culturally relevant composit...

Objectives The life expectancy of HIV positive individuals has improved dramatically with the advent of HAART. The cohort of older people living with HIV is steadily increasing in size. Both advancing age and HIV are associated with an increased likelihood of comorbidities and polypharmacy independently, but little is known about their combined impact and how this will shape the care required f...

Aging is a global trend, and the most obvious change after aging of skin appearance (Clatici, et al. [1]). Therefore, active ingredients that delay are particularly attractive.

Introduction Governments across Europe want to promote healthy and active aging, as a matter of both public health and economic sustainability. Designing policies focused on the most vulnerable groups requires information at the individual level. However, a measure of healthy and active aging at the individual level does not yet exist. Objectives This paper develops the Selfie Aging Index (SA...

In this article, the authors consider the different approaches that can be used to examine the relationship between physical activity and aging. They propose that much is to be gained in our awareness of this dynamic relationship by drawing on multiple forms of knowledge that can generate diverse understandings regarding the impact of physical activity on physiological, psychological, and socia...

aging coefficient (ac) or aged-child ratio or age composition; takes into account the numbers and areas at both ends of the age distribution simultaneously. ac is the total number of individuals aged 65 years and more, divided by the total number of individuals aged 14 years, multiplied by 100. herein, age composition in iranian popu1ations, according to different provinces, place of residence ...