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European innovation partnership on active and healthy ageing: how is the EU connecting the dots between smart innovation and ageing boom

Lagiewka, Karolina; Pinto Antunes, Jorge - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research (2011) 2, pp. 95-103

Europe and many other countries in the world are currently facing increasingly complex and systemic challenges. Ageing … pioneered in a partnership on active and healthy ageing. This pilot, if successful, will help increase the healthy lifespan of … capable of connecting efficiently the dots between health innovation and needs of ageing populations and can also be a …

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Salaries ages: conditions de travail et transition vers la retraite; la situation en France.

Gaullier, X; Goldberg, Iṭshe - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1993

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A Note on Consumer Price Dynamics for Subpopulations in Italy

Valle, Matteo Della - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali (2010) 4, pp. 433-448

This paper computes the consumer price indexes for subpopulations chosen according to the age of the head of the family, to his professional condition, to the presence or not of children in the unit, stressing whether these indexes differ statistically from those referring to the whole...

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Ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement

Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Peracchi, Franco - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 4, pp. 691-710

We investigate the relationship between ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement using the Survey on Health, Ageing …

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The value of medical and pharmaceutical interventions for reducing obesity

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 4, pp. 630-643

This paper attempts to quantify the social, private, and public-finance values of reducing obesity through pharmaceutical and medical interventions. We find that the total social value of bariatric surgery is large for treated patients, with incremental social cost-effectiveness ratios typically...

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Demographic determinants of daily travel demand

Metz, David - In: Transport Policy 21 (2012) C, pp. 20-25

change, both growth and ageing of the population, will be the main determinant of future travel demand and traffic levels …

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Crisis y problemas demográficos en España desde el Antiguo Régimen hasta el presente

Pérez-Moreda, Vicente; Collantes, Fernando - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2012

El trabajo analiza las crisis demográficas españolas desde una perspectiva de largo plazo que cubre el Antiguo Régimen y la edad contemporánea. Para el Antiguo Régimen, se consideran las crisis de mortalidad: alzas bruscas de las defunciones que conducían a fuertes descensos de la...

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The Impact of Social Activities on Cognitive Ageing: Evidence From Eleven European Countries

Dobrescu, Loretti; Christelis, Dimitris - ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research … - 2012

Using micro data from eleven European countries, we investigate the impact of being socially active on cognition in older age. Cognitive abilities are measured through scores on numeracy, fluency and recall tests. We address the endogeneity of social activities through panel data and...

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What do we know about the experience of age related macular degeneration? A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research

Bennion, Amy E.; Shaw, Rachel L.; Gibson, Jonathan M. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 6, pp. 976-985

Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of registerable blindness with a high medical and societal cost burden. Much of the research examining experiences of living with AMD has been conducted independently with small sample sizes and has failed to impact on practice....

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Resilience from the point of view of older people: ‘There's still life beyond a funny knee’

Wiles, Janine L.; Wild, Kirsty; Kerse, Ngaire; Allen, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 3, pp. 416-424

Resilience is a concept of growing interest in relation to older people and within the context of population ageing. In … range of areas. Thus even those living with significant illness or hardship can be understood to be ageing well and indeed … concept framing how ageing well can incorporate multidimensional pathways including both vulnerability and flourishing. We …

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