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The International Handbook on Aging - Current Research and Developments (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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The International Handbook on Aging - Current Research and Developments (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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The United Nations World Assembly on Aging has made advancing
health and well-being into old age a worldwide call for action. And
this text at hand shows us what researchers worldwide are doing to
answer that call. Here, three of America's most esteemed experts on
aging lead a global team of contributors - each an expert in his or
her country - to show us what the top challenges of each nation
are, and what top research is being done there to meet those. While
we cannot predict with absolute certainty all of the issues that
will arise over the next 20 years, we can anticipate some and we
must start now to prepare for these challenges, an expert from the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warned at a recent UN
World Assembly on Aging. Needed response to the global population
shift is not just the responsibility of governments, but will be a
product of wise, long-term decisions made by individuals and
societies, she explained. In most nations globally, populations are
graying and the number of people aged 65 and older is vastly
increasing, creating a larger segment of senior citizens than the
world has ever before seen. Across human history, the elderly
accounted for no more than 3 percent of the world population. By
the year 2030, the elderly are expected to make up about 25 percent
of the world population. And while longevity is of course seen as a
great success, longer lifespan for such masses also creates
dilemmas. For example, the incidence of dementia has already
increased significantly with an 11-fold increase in people aged 65
and older in the US since the turn of the century, and a similar
increase in aged people in Scotland has researchers there
scrambling to find treatments for what they expect will be a 75
percent increase in dementia over the next 25 years. Chronic
diseases that come with aging are already taxing health care
systems in the US and around the world to Japan, with most experts
aware their current health systems would be overrun and lack enough
staff and facilities to handle the needs of an elderly population
multiplying largely in the coming two decades. Increases in
psychological issues such as dealing with the depression often
striking aged people are impending, too, as are social issues such
as how families, and public policies, will deal with the changing
shape of the family.
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