Demographic Changes in Today’s Society Reflected in The Organizational Context

Abstract

A new trend began to emerge with the improvement of living conditions and medical advancement: the trend towards longevity. This trend appeared slowly at beginning of the industrial revolution but has increased significantly in the 20th and the 21st centuries. This trend, which initially started hesitatingly in developed countries, has now extended to reach across the entire planet. Europe, as an initiator of the industrial revolution, is one of the world’s regions with the most aged population. One consequence of an aging process compounded by a drop in fertility rates is reflected in the organizational context, where potentially available employees are also much older. This has led to many changes in the proportion of employees over 60 years of age, and will require other changes in order to provide the human resource necessary for the optimal progress of professional activities.

Body Mass Index and Its Influence on Chronic Low Back Pain in the Spanish Population: A Secondary Analysis from the European Health Survey (2020)

“…The prevalence of chronic low back pain is related to age, increasing from the age of 30 years [ 13 ], and it is higher among women [ 14 ]. Because of the reality that the world population of older persons, aged 60 years or over, is expected to reach nearly 2.1 billion in 2050, doubling its size from 2017 [ 15 ], the fact that the prevalence of chronic low back pain increases with age [ 13 ] has particular importance. Hormonal mechanisms [ 16 ], increased sensitivity to pain [ 17 ] and less competent pain inhibitory mechanism [ 18 ] have been highlighted as the biological factors behind the higher prevalence of low back pain in woman.…”