Upcoming picture of ageing population: Pakistan

Cheema, Ammara Nawaz

doi:10.1007/s11135-012-9660-0

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“…It is projected that in 2058 the mean life expectancy in Pakistan will be 70.7 years as compared to its current value of 66.7 years [12]. According to Alzheimer’s disease International (ADI) 2006 estimates, in Pakistan the prevalence of dementia was 330,100 people with annual incidence of 107,300 cases.…”

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Association of APOE polymorphisms and stressful life events with dementia in a Pakistani population

Chaudhry

Hasnain

Snitz

et al. 2014

Neuroscience Letters

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Dementia is a major public health problem worldwide. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a major form of dementia and the APOE*4 allele is an established genetic risk factor for AD. Similarly, stressful life events are also associated with dementia. The objective of this study was to examine the association of APOE*4 and stressful life events with dementia in a Pakistani sample, which to our knowledge has not been reported previously. We also tested for an interaction between stressful life events and APOE*4 on dementia risk. A total of 176 subjects (61 cases and 115 controls) were recruited. All cases and healthy controls were interviewed to assess cognition, co-morbidities, history of stressful life events and demographics. Blood genotyping for the APOE polymorphism (E2/E3/E4) was performed. APOE*4 and stressful life events were each independently and significantly associated with the risk of dementia (APOE*4: P=0.00697; stressful life events: P=5.29E-09). However, we did not find a significant interaction between APOE*4 carrier status and stressful life events on risk of dementia (P=0.677). Although the sample size of this study was small, the established association of APOE*4 with dementia was confirmed the first time in a Pakistani sample. Furthermore, stressful life events were also found to be significantly associated with dementia in this population.

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Association of APOE polymorphisms and stressful life events with dementia in a Pakistani population

Chaudhry

Hasnain

Snitz

et al. 2014

Neuroscience Letters

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“…Combined with the lower life expectancy of males in comparison to females (Vanella 2017: 550-552), we conclude that females in most cases survive their spouses. Thus, a male who becomes frail is often cared for by his spouse (Hank andStuck 2008: 1288;Cheema 2013Cheema : 2406. This may lead to a tendency of underestimating care risks in the statistics, since it is realistic that not all persons giving informal care claim financial support for doing so.…”

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A probabilistic projection of beneficiaries of long-term care insurance in Germany by severity of disability

Vanella

Heß

Wilke³

2020

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“…The analysis clearly showed that developed economies in the OECD block, such as Australia, the UK, and the US stand out as significant countries producing and collaborating in APS-related studies. There have been some laudable but isolated efforts to examine the APS-related literature in developing countries (see Cheema 2013 ; Nguyen et al 2019 ; Dhakal and Aryal 2022 ; Chatterjee and Mahmood 2022 ). However, Mahmood & Dhakal ( 2022 ) point out that while Japan is the front runner in research outputs amongst countries in the Asia Pacific region, collaborative outcomes from developing countries on the APS nexus have been negligible.…”

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Ageing population and society: a scientometric analysis

Mahmood

Dhakal

2022

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The ageing population and society (APS) nexus is one of the key grand challenges of this millennium. And yet, the systematic analysis of scholarly literature on the APS nexus has remained under the radar. This study responds to this gap and employs a quantitative approach through a scientometric analysis of literature on the APS nexus to inform policy discussions and guide future research directions. This study adopts quantitative scientometric methods to examine the APS literature (n = 566) between 2011 and 2020 found in the Scopus database. The analysis reveals key research topics and recognizes the most important articles, authors, publication outlets, institutions, and countries in the field. The findings indicate that while issues such as ageing population, gender, quality of life, and socio-economic aspects of ageing have received significant interest, social exclusion of older adults, age diversity, social policy, and the eldercare workforce have received less attention. As challenges associated with the APS nexus will continue to gain currency in the future, this paper discusses the implications of the findings on (a) future research direction and (b) north-south research collaboration. The analysis shown in this paper should be of interest to scholars and policymakers interested in addressing the challenges associated with the APS nexus.

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Upcoming picture of ageing population: Pakistan

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Association of APOE polymorphisms and stressful life events with dementia in a Pakistani population

Association of APOE polymorphisms and stressful life events with dementia in a Pakistani population

A probabilistic projection of beneficiaries of long-term care insurance in Germany by severity of disability

Ageing population and society: a scientometric analysis

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