Ageing in Russia: a Regional Appraisal
In this study, we explore differentials in both the key drivers of ageing in Russia, as well as the outcome in both standard and ‘new’ demographic measures of ageing based upon the concept of ‘prospective ageing’. Our results show that the pace and scale of ageing – along with the nature of the underlying drivers – across Russia is highly uneven. Under a federal systems such as Russia, this means that the policy c hallenges related to population ageing will be differently felt at the regional level. On the flip side, any national policy intervention (such as raising the pension age) would have differential impa...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - January 25, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A Nationally Coordinated Health Promotion Program for the Elderly in a Federal State, Switzerland
AbstractIn a federal state like Switzerland, where health policies are the responsibility of local, regional and federal authorities, implementing a nationally coordinated health promotion program is a political and logistic challenge. The VIA project, presented hereafter, is one of the rare health promotion projects to be coordinated at the national level in Switzerland. Its aim is to promote the health of older people, a population which is heavily affected by chronic diseases. Indeed, in the group aged 65 –79 years living at home, 28.8% suffer from one and 25.2% from several chronic diseases; in the over-80 age group...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - January 2, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Increasing Employment of Older Workers: Addressing Labour Market Obstacles
AbstractThe paper reviews international experience with selected measures aimed at increasing employment of older workers and identifies best practices. Among the measures addressing worker obstacles, the paper focuses on the promotion of training, on adjusting employment services and active labour market programs for older workers, and on promoting better working conditions; among the areas addressing employer obstacles, it focuses on adjusting employment protection rules for older workers, on subsidizing wages of older workers, and on challenging employers ’ negative perceptions. In addition, to offer a perspective int...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - January 2, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Social Enterprise for Elderly Housing: Policy for Accountability and Public-Private Responsible Financing
This study further explores quality deficiencies in homes for the elderly within the case of postcolonial Hong Kong. It suggests relevance of this framework to accountability and quality performance of elderly housing as social enterprises. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it argues that the policy makers need to emphasize accountability for performance enhanced by a governance system under a public-private responsible financing model aiming to safeguard the dignity of the elderly and social sustainability. (Source: Journal of Population Ageing)
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - December 4, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Involuntary and Delayed Retirement as a Possible Health Risk for Lower Educated Retirees
This study investigates health differences across educational levels among 1280 retirees participating in the ‘Health, Ageing and Retirement Transitions in Sweden’ (HEARTS) study. Retirement age and involuntary reasons for retirement were considered as potential mediator and moderators of the social gradient in health outcomes. Results from a path analysis suggest that lower educated retirees are more l ikely to stop working for physical reasons, which is related to poor post-retirement health. Hence, involuntary retirement mediates the educational effect on health. Linear regressions highlighted the moderating effect ...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - November 16, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Analysis of the Consumption Patterns in Families with and without Elderly Members between 1987 and 2009 in the Metropolitan Regions of Brazil
AbstractThe fast growth of the Brazilian elderly population is bringing new challenges for the local economy. In order to allow governments and markets to be prepared for this new growing demand, the objective of this paper is to analyze the differences in consumption patterns between families that are headed by the elderly and those that are not using microdata level from Brazilian household budget surveys for the years 1987/88, 1995/96, 2002/03, and 2008/09. Among the main results, there have been changes in the past 20 years for some consumer products and not for others for both family structures. We also find that fa...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - November 13, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Old-Age Care Provision in Spain in the Context of a New System of Long-Term Care and a Lingering Economic Crisis
This study analyses whether care providing strategies for non-institutionalized older adults have changed in the context of a new system of long-term care that emanated from the 2006 “Dependency Act”, and a lingering economic crisis. The Spanish sample of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (waves 2006 and 2013) is employed to analyse how different individual and household factors affect care strategies, distinguishing between informal (co-resident and non- resident) carers, formal carers and combined formal and informal care, using descriptive statistics and multinomial logit regression. Results show...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - November 9, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Giving Back to the Elderly: Cross-Cultural Construction of Befitting Burial for the Dead in Nigeria
AbstractBefitting burial signifies both a celebration of the deceased and a rite ushering the deceased into the afterlife. Regardless of whether or not the needs of elderly persons were met before death, children of the deceased emphasised the need to organise for their elderly persons befitting burial, often an elaborate ceremony to honour the dead. This necessitated an in-depth understanding of cross-cultural explanation of befitting burial, experiences of elderly persons before death, and their expectation at demise. A case study was conducted on six individuals that represent different interests and categories in Ibada...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - November 3, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Retirement and Depression in Mexican Older Adults: Effect Modifiers in a Cohort Based on the Study on AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE), 2002 –2010
AbstractWorld population is experiencing a demographic transition, which introduces changes in the workforce structure, such as increasing retirement. At the same time, retirement produces several life-style modifications that significantly influence well-being and can lead to depression. Thereby, this study aimed to estimate the association between retirement and depression incidence in Mexican older adults from a population-based cohort and to evaluate its potential effect modifiers. The cohort was assembled using SAGE-Mexico waves 0 and 1 (baseline and follow-up, respectively), and included individuals who at wave 0 wer...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - October 26, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Unisex life care annuities embedded in a pay-as-you-go pension system: Analysing the issue of gender redistribution
AbstractThis paper deals with the idea of converting retirement benefit into a life care annuity with graded benefits using a pre-existing public pay-as-you-go pension scheme. Based on accurate biometric data from Australia and the US, the paper shows that using gender-neutral annuity factors to compute the initial benefit involves a large increase in ex-ante gender redistribution compared to a system without long-term coverage. In spite of the very different biometric data, the results are surprisingly similar for both countries. To disentangle the hidden redistribution, a methodology based on conversion (actuarial) facto...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - September 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Reducing Early Retirement in Europe: Do Working Conditions Matter?
AbstractThe paper argues that the existing literature, based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) data, on how working conditions impact on early retirement preferences/plans is hampered by the fact that the approach adopted to capture individuals ’ early retirement plans fails to acknowledge that these preferences/plans are defined by reference to the rules that regulate the entitlement to pension benefits. In doing so, these studies risk overestimating the impact of working conditions on early retirement plans. We put forward a more accur ate way of capturing individuals’ early retirement ...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - September 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Older Migrants in Germany
AbstractA substantial part of the older population in Germany already has a so-called migration background, but clearly in the next years and decades the rate will increase. Thus, the crucial questions are as follows: How are the older migrants in Germany faring? How are their living situations? What differences exist between migrants and native Germans as well as between members of different migrant groups and different migrant generations? This paper starts with a short overview about the migration history from and to Germany since 1950 and the most important facts of the socio-demographic characteristics of older migran...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - September 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Migration and the Multi-Dimensional Well-Being of Elderly Persons in Georgia
AbstractHigh rates of migration coupled with low formal social protection provisions may place many members of the elderly Georgian population in precarious living conditions that promote vulnerability and limit well-being achievement. This potential connection has been poorly explored in past literature, however, suggesting a need to better assess how the migration of an adult child may influence the multidimensional well-being of the elderly in Georgia. Using a novel dataset comprising 2202 elderly individuals across all regions of Georgia (excepting the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia), this paper proposes a m...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - September 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Unavoidable Nature of Population Ageing and the Ageing-Driven End of Growth – an Update for New Zealand
AbstractDespite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many people still question the extent to which population ageing and the ageing-driven ending of growth will unfold more or less as projected. This is particularly so in New Zealand, where the population is still relatively youthful due to near-replacement fertility and many years of high per capita net migration gains. As elsewhere, however, the picture differs markedly at subnational level, with the populations of one-quarter of the nation ’s 67 territorial authority areas (TAs) already (in 2017) having more than 20% aged 65+ years. Accompanying this trend, one-thi...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - September 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
