Ageing, care need and quality of life the perspective of care givers and people in need of care
Increasing life expectancy and population ageing leads to a rising number of elderly people in need of care. Improvements in health may counterbalance this trend to some extent but cannot fully compensate it. In this proceedings, Gabriele Doblhammer and Rembrandt Scholz present combined expertise in...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiesbaden, Germany :
VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | VS research.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009456523206719 |
| Sumario: | Increasing life expectancy and population ageing leads to a rising number of elderly people in need of care. Improvements in health may counterbalance this trend to some extent but cannot fully compensate it. In this proceedings, Gabriele Doblhammer and Rembrandt Scholz present combined expertise in the field of health, care need and care resources. Various care need projections based on diverse projection methods give a detailed overview on probable future developments of the number of people in need of care, mainly for Germany. A special emphasis is put on the future number of people with dementia in Germany. Next to that the authors explore past trends in health and care need in relation to increases in life expectancy and discuss the effects of sex, smoking, obesity, and other determinants that influence health and care need in older ages. The trends in health and care need are additionally viewed in relation to trends in the number of care need providers and their quality of life. This book is a valuable reference for academics in the social sciences, especially those with a focus on health care and demography and for practitioners in the field of health care. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781283172585 9786613172587 9783531923352 |
