A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing
This book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in ...
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Ageing: The Paradox of Life
For centuries people have been puzzled by the inevitability of human aging. For most of the second half of the twentieth ...
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Ages, Generations and the Social Contract
Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and ...
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Aging Well
Outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions ...
Lee masAging and Senescence / Ali Nakhla ; Osayd Abo Rshed ; Rihab Nassif ; Diana Al-arnaout ; Bayan Al-najjar
Aging is characterized by a progressive loss of physiological integrity, leading to impaired function and increased vulnerability ...
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Costs and Benefits of Collective Pension Systems
The Dutch pension system is often praised as one of the best in the world: it is efficient, it provides certainty to participants ...
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Diverse Roles of Integrin Receptors in Articular Cartilage
Recent studies from the authors' laboratory and from other leading groups have shown that ß1-integrins are essential for ...
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Genders in the Life Course
Treats the topic of gender and demographic behaviour during the life course in a comprehensive fashion. It covers a lot of ...
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Global Political Demography The Politics of Population Change
This book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040.
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Healthy Longevity in China : Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions
China is aging at an extraordinary speed and has the largest quantity of elderly persons in the world. Scholars utilize this ...
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Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population
Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, these fundamental questions ...
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Longer Life and Healthy Aging
The focus of this book is on theoretical issues and empirical findings related to trends and determinants of healthy aging, ...
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People, Population Change and Policies : Lessons from the Population Policy Acceptance Study Vol. 1: Family Change
This two-volume work presents social cohesion and demographic challenges that are associated with low birth rates and population ...
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People, Population Change and Policies Lessons from the Population Policy Acceptance Study Vol. 2: Demographic Knowledge – Gender – Ageing
This two-volume work presents social cohesion and demographic challenges that are associated with low birth rates and population ...
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Population Ageing and Economic Growth
We review standard economic growth models concentrating on the relationship between population ageing and economic growth ...
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Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases Case Studies from Japan
This book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable ...
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Social Exclusion in Later Life Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives
Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent ...
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Spin Glasses
Spin glass theory is going through a stunning period of progress while finding exciting new applications in areas beyond ...
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Stochastic Ageing and Dependence for Reliability
Ageing and dependence are two important characteristics in reliability and survival analysis, and they affect significantly ...
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Telomeres and Telomerase in Ageing, Disease, and Cancer
A special focus of the book is on adult stem cells. There is emerging evidence that adult stem cell ageing impairs organismal ...
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