Die Alten der Zukunft

Mai, Ralf

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“…As a consequence, a number of German-speaking scientific books ( e.g. Birg 2005; Frevel 2004; Kaufmann 2005; Kohli and Künemund 2005; Mai 2003; Schimany 2003) and popular scientific monographs ( e.g. Gronemeyer 2005; Hondrich 2007; Schirrmacher 2004; Strange 2006) have been published during the last few years.…”

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Ageing in an aged society: experiences and attitudes of Catholic order members towards population ageing and older people

Flandorfer

Giulio

2013

Ageing and Society

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Population ageing occurs in all industrialised societies and is the demographic phenomenon that currently gets the highest attention from scientists, policy makers and the general public. The main aim of this paper is to broaden our understanding of its societal consequences, such as ageism and intergenerational solidarity. Our study is based on the  investigation of attitudes towards population ageing and older people in seven European countries of Schoenmaeckers et al. We replicate their analysis in a specific human subpopulation in which the process of population ageing started earlier and is much more advanced than in the general societies: the members of Catholic orders. The study compares the attitudes of  nuns and monks from three Bavarian monasteries to those of the western German general population using descriptive and multivariate analyses in the context of the debate around population ageing in Germany. We discuss the specific characteristics of order members that might influence their attitudes and also take a brief look at their views on possible political strategies to solve the problems connected with the demographic changes. Our results confirm the findings of Schoenmaeckers et al. and reveal that worldly and monastic populations show an identical basic pattern of a positive attitude towards older people while at the same time considering population ageing a worrisome development. However, order members evaluate older people's abilities and their role in society more positively. This result gives rise to the optimistic perspective that in an aged population the younger and older generations can build a wellfunctioning society. This process is caused by both sharp declines in fertility rates below replacement level (i.e. an average number of about . children per woman) and decreasing mortality rates among the old and the oldest-old (more details can be found in e.g. Goldstein ). Demographic projections reveal that population ageing is unavoidable in any population of the developed world (Powell ). Only the extent of this process differs between the countries depending on their levels of fertility and mortality (see e.g. Golini ; Lutz, Sanderson and Scherbov , ). Moreover, the ageing of the population will go hand in hand with a decrease of total population sizes. These developments are generally referred to as 'demographic change' and are the demographic phenomena with currently the greatest interest from scientists, policy makers and the general public. Above all, the rise of people in higher and highest ages causes many consequences of immediate relevance for society (e.g. Bernard and Phillips ; Harper ). For instance, population ageing has an instantaneous impact on the demand for social and medical services and raises the requirements for health care and the capacity of social security systems. The rising share of older people forces the population in working ages to contribute more financial resources for pension funds, health and nursing care insurance.Al...

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Ageing in an aged society: experiences and attitudes of Catholic order members towards population ageing and older people

Flandorfer

Giulio

2013

Ageing and Society

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“…Furthermore, the number of high-maintenance patients will increase significantly between 2000 and 2040. Some studies suggest an increase by as much as 70% [2]. Combined with the decrease of the number of children per family and the increased requirement of mobility by the labour market, shortages in care for the elderly will become increasingly challenging.…”

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3DLC: A Comprehensive Model for Personal Health Records Supporting New Types of Medical Applications

Helmer

Lipprandt

Frenken

et al. 2011

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Motivated by the demographic change, many new medical applications are installed in the user's home environment. These applications make use of ambient sensors, enabling new forms of medical care. Personal Health Records (PHRs) are an instrument for the storage, presentation and communication of health related data provided by these applications. But there are still open issues regarding the cooperation between PHRs and the new applications. On the basis of two medical application scenarios, we developed a new model which defines the appropriate level of abstraction of data generated by medical applications to be stored inside the PHR. The model also determines which part of these data is relevant for the clinical decision making process, and how these data should be communicated to physicians. This paper describes the 3DLC model, which uses three dimensions (clinical decision, frequency and context dependence) to determine the type of the data. We further introduce a prototype PHR system that is able to fulfil the requirements of our scenarios.

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Demografischer Wandel

Kaestner¹,

Müller-Seedorf²

2004

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Die Alten der Zukunft

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Ageing in an aged society: experiences and attitudes of Catholic order members towards population ageing and older people

Ageing in an aged society: experiences and attitudes of Catholic order members towards population ageing and older people

3DLC: A Comprehensive Model for Personal Health Records Supporting New Types of Medical Applications

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