L’Afrique, un continent jeune face au défi du vieillissement

Golaz, Valérie; Nowik, Laurent; Sajoux, Muriel

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“…Every country in the world is expected to experience an increase in the number and proportion of older people 1 . The absolute number of older people in Africa is expected to quadruple between 2010 and 2050, from 56 to 215 million 2 . Little is known about the condition of the elderly in Guinea.…”

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Nutritional status and associated factors among the elderly in Guinea: a first national cross-sectional study

Millimono,

Camara,

Mabiama

et al. 2023

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Aging of the Guinean population is a public health concern for the coming years, and the nutritional status of older people is virtually unknown. We also know that this population is growing and that undernutrition and obesity can affect the health of older adults. This study aimed to assess the nutritional status of older people in the general population of Guinea and its associated factors. A representative cross-sectional survey was conducted using sociodemographic, clinical, and anthropometric data (weight and height). Oral status was assessed by using the University of Nebraska Oral Status Scale. Visual acuity was assessed using the Monoyer scale. The standardized prevalence ratio (SPR) of the nutritional status was calculated for each region. The sample included 1698 subjects with a mean BMI of 22.6 ± 4.3 kg/m2. A total of 50.3% had impaired oral status and 20.3% had moderately to severely impaired visual acuity. The prevalence of undernutrition was 14.4% and of obesity 5.7%. Differences in the prevalence of nutritional status were found between regions, with an SPR > 1 for undernutrition in the Labé region (SPR 1.9, 95% CI = 1.5–2.5) and for obesity in the Conakry and Kindia regions (SPR of 2.90, 95% CI = 2.0–4.05 and 2.32, 95% CI = 1.5–3.3, respectively). In Guinea, The prevalence of nutritional disorders was approximately 20%. Screening and management of the health and nutritional status of older adults should be a national priority, and management should be adapted to each region of the country.

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Nutritional status and associated factors among the elderly in Guinea: a first national cross-sectional study

Millimono,

Camara,

Mabiama

et al. 2023

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New Approaches to Measuring Ageing in South Africa

Shoko

2018

Systems Analysis Approach for Complex Global Challenges

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Journalism in the indefinite: A comparative perspective of a soft-retirement activity

Assala¹

2020

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The international comparative study of journalism as a working activity shows various model of retirement going from a non-interrupted involvement to a complete change. To tight the classical distinction between occupation and profession as Everett Hughes put, the occupational identity goes with the unlimited working activity along the life of a journalist till he dies. While in Cameroon and Africa in general, the model of retirement is similar to the working life, journalists turning out here from resourcefulness to begging, in France to the contrary, a set of changing rules coming from a long process of syndication insure the protection of journalists. If the work of journalists is bound to come to an end in one way or the other, the authors inspired by a perspective based on rudology acknowledged a Three-scale Theory of Retirement (TSR) which accounts for the relationship maintained by sociological theory of retirement of journalists namely the everlasting model of retirement, the alternative oriented model and the liberal model. These models were articulated with each other to reveal the first category of journalists made up of a dominant group of media managers in public media and administrative companies with a guarantee of remuneration and social positions close to that of the other senior civil service and private sector categories. This first category enjoy a comfortable retirement condition The second category at the intermediate level is those of practioners taking the control of their living activity by creating media organs or acquiring them either. They are worked by a militant and even messianic vision of their activity and are involved in trade union dynamics. Their protection after the working life is then guaranteed by the inequal capacity to find another occupation, sometimes very different from journalism but not so far from communication. The last category is that of those who consider the corporate organizations to be detrimental to free competitions among workers. During their period of activity they were used to do many other activities and petit businesses which they will continue till the death. The authors advocate for a better supervision of the retirement of journalists by the state, the professional and the trade union circles.

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L’Afrique, un continent jeune face au défi du vieillissement

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Cited by 18 publications

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Nutritional status and associated factors among the elderly in Guinea: a first national cross-sectional study

Nutritional status and associated factors among the elderly in Guinea: a first national cross-sectional study

New Approaches to Measuring Ageing in South Africa

Journalism in the indefinite: A comparative perspective of a soft-retirement activity

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