scholarly journals Articles on elderly in Serbian medical journals

2009 ◽  
Vol 137 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 534-536
Author(s):  
Nebojsa Despotovic ◽  
Dragoslav Milosevic ◽  
Predrag Erceg ◽  
Mladen Davidovic
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Domestic Medical ◽  
Growing Population

Introduction Population aging is a feature of all countries in the world. According to statistics, the Republic of Serbia is one of the countries with the majority of the elderly. Taking this into account, are articles on the elderly well represented in domestic medical journals? Objective The aim of the paper was to determine whether there was a sufficient number of articles on the elderly in domestic medical journals. Methods The articles on the elderly were searched using search engines in domestic and foreign medical journals for the last 5 years compared with the number of articles on children in the same publications for the same period. Results In the Serbian Citation Index, 11 articles on the topic of the elderly, and 487 on children were registered. In Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo, there was registered only one article on the topic of the elderly, and 30 on children. In Vojnosanitetski pregled, 2 articles on the elderly and 13 on children were registered (p<0001). For the last five years, in the New England Journal of Medicine, there were 593 articles on the elderly and 759 articles on children; in the JAMA, there were 63 articles on the elderly and 303 articles on children; and in The Lancet, in the last five years, 46 articles on the elderly and 148 articles on children were published. Conclusion The themes of the elderly were rarely represented in Serbian medical journals. This has reduced the interest of physicians in medical problems of this growing population of patients and further sent them away from making standards in the diagnosis and treatment of the elderly.

scholarly journals The quality of life of the older generation in Belarus

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-49
Author(s):  
E. A. Kechyna ◽  
L. V. Filinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Demographic Aging ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic

The demographic aging of population typical for many countries requires much more financial and material resources to meet the needs of the post-working-age population. For the Republic of Belarus, the problem of population aging is highly relevant for the share of the elderly grows annually. The article focuses on the social-demographic characteristics and quality of life of the older generation in Belarus. The article is based on the data of the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus and the results of the sociological research “Belarus: Family, Stability of Family Relations, and Birth Rate in the Changing Social-Economic Conditions” conducted within the international research program “Generation and Gender”. The authors present a sociological-statistical approach to the analysis of the key characteristics of the elderly’s life in contemporary Belarus, which combines the information resources of sociology and statistics. The authors consider the general statistical data on the population aging and the elderly’s features and the sociological indicators revealing the perception of life at the older age. The assessment of the older generation’s life is presented as a set of indicators of the quality of life, which includes both objective statistical data and estimates of the older people’s satisfaction with various aspects of their life. For the first time in Belarus the quality of life of the 60-69- and 70-79-year-old cohorts is studied not only through statistical data but also taking into account their own assessments of various aspects of their lives, which allows to identify the most relevant issues for the social programs aimed at meeting the needs of the older generation.

scholarly journals Consumer Financial Knowledge and Retirement Planning Behaviors

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Fuzhong Chen ◽  
Zijun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Population Aging ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Retirement Planning ◽  
Financial Knowledge ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Financial Capability ◽  
Retirement Accounts ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level

With the increasingly serious problem of population aging around the world, the issue of consumer retirement planning behaviors has been highlighted in recent years. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of consumer financial knowledge on retirement planning behaviors. Utilizing the data from the National Financial Capability Study in 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018, this study measures consumer retirement planning behavior through the variables of whether consumers have retirement accounts and whether they regularly contribute to their retirement account. To verify the robustness, a series of additional regressions are conducted by replacing the estimation approach and dropping income outliers. The results imply that consumers with a high level of financial knowledge tend to perform desirable retirement behaviors. Based on the results, we recommend that financial education programs should be widely introduced and targeted at those who lack financial knowledge, such as the elderly and the under-educated, to stimulate consumers to improve their retirement planning behaviors.

International Real Estate Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-482
Author(s):  
Fathali Firoozi ◽  
◽  
Abolhassan Jalilvand ◽  
Donald Lien ◽  
Mikiko Oliver ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Damping Effect ◽  
The World ◽  
Behavioral Divergence ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Population aging and its economic impact have been receiving increasing attention in many countries around the world. This study offers an analysis of the impact of aging on the housing prices in Singapore relative to the U.S. as the benchmark. The study uses semiannual series over the period of 1998 to 2019 with the age subgroups organized in 5-year intervals. The literature contains conflicting arguments on the impacts of aging on housing prices. Based on observations made for Singapore and the U.S., this study supports the arguments that the elderly part of a population has a damping effect on housing prices. A novel behavioral divergence between Singapore and the U.S. emerges when the analysis focuses on the impact of the finer age subgroups on housing prices in the two countries. The “turning age”, which is defined as the approximate cut-off age when the impact of aging on housing prices turns from positive to negative, is approximately 55 years old in Singapore and 60 years old in the U.S.

scholarly journals Population Age Structures of Nations with COVID-19 and Attributed Deaths

2021 ◽  
Vol In Press (In Press) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Akbar Mahzoon ◽  
Saleh Ghasemi ◽  
Ali Dabbagh ◽  
Mohammad Akbari ◽  
Hadis Ashrafizadeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Aging ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
World Health ◽  
Age Composition ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Age Range

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest challenges the world has faced during the last decades that has affected every aspect of human life. Objectives: This study aimed to identify the effects of the age composition of the countries on global mortality and the final outcome of the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: This ecological observational study used the World Health Organization (WHO) reports for information on COVID-19 in 42 countries with more than 1000 formal COVID-19 reports. The correlation coefficient between age composition pattern and COVID-19 deaths was calculated in selected countries by SPSS. Results: This study demonstrated a positive relationship between COVID-19-attributed death and the country population share of the 50 - 64 years age group at the significance level of 90.8%. The only age range that could affect the nationwide mortality rate was the age range of 50 - 64 years. There was not a significant correlation between COVID-19-attributed death and the population share of 65 years and over. Conclusions: The young population is protective against COVID-19-related death, and they are productive and responsible for community needs during this pandemic crisis. Population aging and the increasing share of the elderly in population is one of the most critical social changes in the 21st century, and its consequences affect almost all sections of the society.

scholarly journals Trends in Population Aging and Social Policy for Elderly People in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dang Thi Anh Tuyet ◽  
Nguyen Trung Hieu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Aging Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Policy Adaptation ◽  
The World

Population aging is one of the central issues of many countries in the world, including Vietnam. Life quality improvement and increase in life expectancy are indicators of development achievements. However, increase in life expectancy and sub-replacement fertility will inevitably lead to the aging of the population and the aging population will surely increase socio-economic burden. Therefore, without timely policy adaptation solutions, Vietnam will face crises in a number of social areas, such as labor market, social protection for the elderly as well as providing basic social services in the context of an aging population.

Valued elders or societal burden: Cross-national attitudes toward older adults

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Peterson ◽  
Margaret Ralston
Keyword(s):  
Population Aging ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Country Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
National Attitudes

Population aging is a nearly universal trend that is placing new importance on how societies view and treat their elderly. Past research has established that perceptions of the elderly vary across countries. This article empirically explores three competing theoretical explanations on potential reasons for these differences: the Value Orientation perspective, the Competition over Resources perspective, and Political and Economic Structure. Using Wave 6 of the World Values Survey, various sources of country-level data, and hierarchical logistic regressions the article provides insights as to which theoretical position holds the most weight. The analysis improves on past research by using a large and diverse sample of countries from every region of the world. Contrary to popular thought, and the traditional Value Orientation perspective, it is found that Asian, Middle Eastern, and Sub-Saharan African countries have significantly more negative views toward the elderly than Western countries. In addition, the study finds that countries with higher average lifespans and more elderly as a proportion of the total population actually have more favorable attitudes toward the elderly.

scholarly journals Research: a priority for the decade of healthy aging

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-51
Author(s):  
Enrique Vega Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Older Persons ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Protection Mechanism ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Caribbean

It is a great opportunity to be part of the publication of this special issue dedicated to agingand health; I thank the editors for this opportunity. The relevance of this publication is notaccidental, population aging is undoubtedly one of the most formidable challenges that publichealth must face in this century. It is a global challenge, but for the Americas, and especially forLatin America and the Caribbean, it is already an inescapable one.The last decade has been important for public health and aging in the Americas. With pride,we can affirm that in these ten years, no Region has advanced as much as ours. In 2009, theMinisters of Health of the Americas were pioneers in approving an action plan on Agingand Health, the first in the world; in addition, the Americas was the first, and so far the onlyregion in the world, to approve a protection mechanism for the rights of the elderly, the Inter-American Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, in 2015.

scholarly journals Was the number of submissions to scholarly journals in Korea affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
Sun Huh
Keyword(s):  
Citation Index ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Expected Number ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
Specific Subset ◽  
The World ◽  
Proportional Change ◽  
Science Citation Index Expanded

This study investigated whether there was an increase in submissions to scholarly journals in Korea according to journals’ field and indexation status in Scopus or Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in 2020, the year when the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic first spread throughout the world. The analysis included 60 journals with esubmission systems operated by M2PI. Yearly and monthly submissions were counted from 2016 to 2020. The yearly proportional change was also calculated. In 2020, submissions soared for medical journals indexed in Scopus/SCIE (49.5%), corresponding to an increase of 36.9% relative to the expected number of submissions. There was also a surge of submissions to these journals from March to July 2020. However, non-medical journals and medical journals not indexed in Scopus/SCIE did not show an increase in submissions. The number of submissions to scholarly journals in Korea was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in a specific subset of journals. The background of the spike in submissions is required to be re-investigated. Editors’ burden also should be mitigated through editorial board members’ help and publishers’ support.

Models for the social and labor adaptation of the elderly people in line with the demographic aging of the population

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1817-1833
Author(s):  
E.V. Molchanova ◽  
M.M. Burkin
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Retirement Benefits ◽  
Third Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
Demographic Aging ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic

Subject. The article discusses the social and labor adaptation of the elderly people in line with the demographic aging of the population in Western Europe and Russia. Objectives. In the study, we conduct a comparative evaluation of healthcare and social aid in the Nordic countries, such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, and assess whether it can be adapted regionally, illustrating the case of the Republic of Karelia (Russia). Methods. The current situation is analyzed through regulatory and legislative documents on retirement benefits, social security and healthcare in the Nordic countries, Russia and the Republic of Karelia (Russia), and official statistics. All data were sorted as a special set of data that includes several related blocks, such as legislative and regulatory documents, retirement benefits and financial aid, social aid, healthcare. We carried out a comparative analysis of key medical-demographic and socio-economic indicators, and statistical apparatus. Results. Consecutively summarizing the situation in the Nordic countries and Russia, and evaluating population aging patterns in the regional context, we discovered distinctions of the social and labor adaptation at the macro- and meso-levels. The article analyzed areas of retirement benefits and financial wellbeing, social and medical aid, labor and professional adaptation, educational support to the elderly people. We especially evaluate whether it is possible to implement social innovations of the Nordic countries for the third age people in the Russian practice and at the regional level, in particular. Conclusions and Relevance. We suggest following various areas of the social and labor adaptation of the elderly people by integrating a comprehensive approach with respect to the issue. The findings can be used to outline programs for the healthcare and demographic policy with reference to processes of the demographic aging and in pursuit of the better standards of living of the third age group.

“Utopia First!” A Machiavellian Conception of Solidarity in More's Utopia

Moreana ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (Number 209) (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Phélippeau
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Difficulties ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Democratic Elections ◽  
Communal Organization

This paper shows how solidarity is one of the founding principles in Thomas More's Utopia (1516). In the fictional republic of Utopia described in Book II, solidarity has a political and a moral function. The principle is at the center of the communal organization of Utopian society, exemplified in a number of practices such as the sharing of farm work, the management of surplus crops, or the democratic elections of the governor and the priests. Not only does solidarity benefit the individual Utopian, but it is a prerequisite to ensure the prosperity of the island of Utopia and its moral preeminence over its neighboring countries. However, a limit to this principle is drawn when the republic of Utopia faces specific social difficulties, and also deals with the rest of the world. In order for the principle of solidarity to function perfectly, it is necessary to apply it exclusively within the island or the republic would be at risk. War is not out of the question then, and compassion does not apply to all human beings. This conception of solidarity, summed up as “Utopia first!,” could be dubbed a Machiavellian strategy, devised to ensure the durability of the republic. We will show how some of the recommendations of Realpolitik made by Machiavelli in The Prince (1532) correspond to the Utopian policy enforced to protect their commonwealth.

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