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Abstract Background Opportunities for social connection between generations in the UK have diminished over the last few decades because of changes in the way that we live and work. The decline in communal spaces such as ...

BackgroundClimate gerontology examines the intersections between climate change and population ageing, yet empirical evidence on how older adults perceive climate-related environmental change remains limited, particularl...

O objetivo neste trabalho foi avaliar a qualidade da carne do músculo longissimus thoracis de bovinos durante a maturação. Amostras de 22 bovinos Nelore e 22 Red Norte machos, com 24 meses de idade, foram coletadas à...

Demographic ageing and the associated increase in the old-age dependency ratio pose significant challenges to the long-term sustainability of pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension systems across Europe. Slovenia, as a post-transi...

Selected Problems with Diagnostics of Sarcopenia in Long-term-care Facilities for the Elderly As the current population gets older, we are learning that some of the diseases and conditions which were formerly perceived ...

The evolution of hardness in an Al-Cu-Mg based alloy with high Cu:Mg ratio (= 2, at. %) microalloyed with Si and Ge was studied during artificial ageing treatment performed at 190 °C. The results were compared to those ...

Processes of medicalization touch every area of life, not surprisingly taking into their interest last stages of human life – ageing and dying. Changes in the demographic situation in the developed countries caused rap...

Ageing which is one of the characteristics of contemporary urbanization process is considered to witness the progress and a high degree of advancement of the process. There is also the matter of civilization in bringing ...

Material reliability is among the crucial factors that impact the performance of devices. In order to predict material reliability, an accelerated ageing study to predict material shelf life when subjected to temperature...

IntroductionImprovements in life expectancy imply that an increase of geriatric trauma patients occurs. These patients require special attention due to their multiple comorbidity issues. The aim of this study was to asse...

Ageing, immobilization, sepsis or cachexia reduce muscle mass and function. The age-related loss, i.e. sarcopenia, contributes to frailty and results in a loss of mobility and autonomy in aging and disease. Affected ind...

Abstract Introduction The ageing of the population is expected to increase the costs and consumption of health care. Care should be patient-centred. Patient-centred care (PCC) has been shown to increase the quality of li...

Prologue Part I: Evolutionary explanation Demography: age and stage structure Quantitative genetics and reaction norms Trade-offs Lineage-specific effects Part II: Age and size at maturity Number and size of offspring Re...

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Se analiza la situación actual del sistema de salud en México, en general, así como de manera específica, en relación al grupo poblacional de adultos mayores (AM) mediante los modelos de organización, de jerarquía...

This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in term...

Fil: O'Lery, María de las Mercedes. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología. Programa Filosofía e Historia de la Ciencia; Argentina. E...

Materias / palabras clave: Stressor; Vulnerability (computing); Gerontology; Medicine; Epidemiology; Population ageing; Health care; Population; Environmental health; Psychiatry; Computer science; Economics

The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) developed a practical clinical definition and consensus diagnostic criteria for age-related sarcopenia. EWGSOP included representatives from four particip...

Background: in 2010, the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) published a sarcopenia definition that aimed to foster advances in identifying and caring for people with sarcopenia. In early 2018, ...

Con la finalidad de elucidar la dinámica de la población del Dpto. Minas (Prov. de Córdoba) se analizó su evolución demográfica entre 1960 y 1991 a través de los indicadores de fecundidad, mortalidad, crecimiento ...

Se realiza el estudio demográfico-comparativo de la población del Dpto. Pocho (provincia de Córdoba) en dos períodos de los siglos XlX y XX. Con el propósito de esclarecer el comportamiento histórico de la misma y ...

El aguardiente fresco, para ser utilizado como materia prima del ron, se somete a un añejamiento en barriles de roble durante un período de tiempo que oscila generalmente entre uno y tres años con el fin de modificar ...