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Sustainability of Seniors in Low- and Middle-Income Societies
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Jesmin, Syeda S.; Amin, Iftekhar; Ingman, Stan – Educational Gerontology, 2011
As low income societies are aging rapidly, government and families face challenges to support the seniors, who are already at greater risks of being negatively affected by many other social, cultural, and global changes occurring around them. This paper reviews some of the major challenges faced by seniors in China, India, Mexico, and African…
Descriptors: Low Income, Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Aging (Individuals)
Assessing the "Agedness" of a Population
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Jayaraj, D.; Subramanian, S. – Social Indicators Research, 2005
In this paper we follow a lead provided by Basu and Basu ["The Greying of Populations: Concepts and Measurement," Demography India 16, pp. 79-89], in order to advance a class of "agedness" indices which, because they have been motivated by analogous considerations in the poverty measurement literature, can find application in…
Descriptors: Demography, Poverty, Social Indicators, Older Adults