Sentences with phrase «because of an aging population»

A major reason: a decline in the rate of workforce growth because of our aging population.
«These are programs that a resident suggested I consider, and after researching them I decided they would be a great benefit to our region, especially because of our aging population,» Legislator Dixon said.
They say the overall number of cancer deaths is set to rise in 2012 because of ageing populations.
It afflicts 25 million people worldwide, and the number of new cases is rising 7 percent annually, mostly because of an aging population.
Health care sector is one of the booming sectors because of aging population and new government health care policies.
This industry segment is experiencing higher costs in part because of an aging population.
Much of this increasing need is because of an aging population and changes to federal insurance laws, which means more people require testing.

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«That implies plenty of room to grow because as the population ages, the demand for medicines will increase.»
Because social media is used by much of the U.S. population in most age groups and continues to grow in popularity globally, having an online presence is key.
Pools of active workers in advanced economies are shrinking because aging populations are adding more retirees than new labourers.
This needs to be addressed because of the pending adverse impacts of an ageing population on economic growth and on government revenues and spending.
We also factored in the population ages 25 to 34 and the education level of each city, because a young, local entrepreneurial community is most likely to thrive with more networking and knowledge - sharing opportunities.
because your understand of science eclipses that of the god of the bible, gone would be the stone age morality — slavery, animal sacrifice, destroying whole segments of populations for absolutely insane reasons - at least I hope it would be better:)
Because a world centuries in the future with iron - age beliefs constraining their wordlview to such myopic possibilities by a sizable segment of the population is disheartening.
Mr. Lippman has been an advocate of reforming the bail system — Rikers Island is mainly a pre-trial detention facility, and many of its inmates are there because they can not afford to post bail — and of raising the age of criminality, two things that would both reduce the size of the Rikers Island population, which is already at an all - time low despite increasing violence there.
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in the country's working - age population and leading health charity Diabetes UK warns that blindness is just one complication that people with diabetes could be at risk of because they are missing out on a wide range of health checks and specialist services.
«We want to support this work because 85 percent of the population of Kaduna State consists of young people below the age of 35 and our biggest challenge; and our economic policy focus on creation of jobs.
Raising the retirement age might be sensible with an ageing population, but it is a gimmick unless age discrimination and inequality are seriously tackled; because if the rate of unemployment is high among the elderly then a raised retirement age simply defers the point where working age benefits are replaced by pension benefits.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said «painful and difficult reforms» of the NHS are necessary because of increasing demand on the service and an aging population.
However, because of the aging of populations the actual numbers of deaths from melanoma would continue to increase until 2030 - 2035.
This is of great concern to ecologists because the populations in these areas include pockets with the highest levels of genetic diversity, thanks to their ancestors having survived major climate change events such as ice ages.
The researchers selected 69 as the lower age limit because Medicare coverage of the general population begins at age 65, and the exposure of interest was regular mammography screening in the four years immediately preceding breast cancer diagnosis.
While prevalence declined, because of the growth in population older than 15 years of age, there has been a continuous increase in the number of men and women who smoke daily, increasing from 721 million in 1980 to 967 million in 2012, with a 41 percent increase in the number of male daily smokers and a 7 percent increase for female smokers.
Nutritionists determine EARs for thirteen different populations, defined by age and gender, because different population groups have different nutritional requirements: Young boys need more calories than seniors, while women of childbearing age should consume more folic acid than the rest of the population needs, for example.
While there seem to be many young Greenland sharks around, Nielsen believes many breeding - age sharks were harvested for oil around the time of the second world war, and because of the time it takes them to mature sexually, the population will be recovering for another 100 years.
«We initiated the Great Ape Aging Project 20 years ago because we saw an aging chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting aging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington UniverAging Project 20 years ago because we saw an aging chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting aging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington Univeraging chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting aging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington Univeraging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington University.
This is the result of increases in cancer diagnoses driven by the aging and growth of the population, as well as the fact that people are living longer with cancer because of earlier cancer detection and more effective treatments.
And because prostate cancer afflicts mainly men in their fifties and sixties, the toll is certain to rise as the populations of Western countries continue to age.
In a study to be published in the July issue of the journal Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, Dr. Rourke noted that aging for people with HIV may be more challenging than for the general population because of HIV - related stigma, loss of friends and social networks, and the detrimental health effects of the virus and medications taken to combat the virus.
Although their cancers are diagnosed at younger ages, this is largely because these ethnic minority populations as a whole are younger than the population of White women in the UK.
90 per cent of the population are at risk to develop it one day, notably because of their age and exposure to the sun UV - rays.
According to the researchers, although the decrease in dementia occurrence is a positive sign, dementia care will remain a crucial challenge for many years because of population aging.
«We initiated the Great Ape Aging Project 20 years ago because we saw an ageing chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting ageing humans,» said Dr. Joseph Erwin, research professor of anthropology at the George Washington University.
We estimated the risk of death due to cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 - 69 year olds from data from the Office for National Statistics.19 We assumed that this death rate was approximately that of the non-smoking population, because around 12 % of this age group smoke.20 We multiplied this rate by the relative risk of death from cardiorespiratory causes in lifelong smokers to estimate the number of deaths that would be expected over five years from cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 year olds who smoke.
LA JOLLA, CA — The current pace of population aging is without parallel in human history but surprisingly little is known about the human aging process, because lifespans of eight decades or...
Where during the last ice age the fattest of the population tended to survive because they lived longer off of their fat supplies.
Because its population (6 million +) is a wide mix of ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, religions, cultures, lifestyles, and backgrounds, people have given Maryland the nicknames Little America or America in Miniature.
Coming amid mounting political alarm about Germany's low birthrate and aging population, the survey of 1,003 women showed only 2 % did not enjoy their solitary lifestyle and 36 % opted to stay single because it was more fun.
The percentage of difference increases as the population ages, especially because Russian women outlive men on an average of 12 years.
Anil told us the average user age drops about one year per annum because «India is a growing young country where most of the population is in their teens or 20s.»
Think about who you are and Because the US population is aging and becoming more obese, the University of Michigan believed it was time to modernize the design of crash - test dummies
For many lovelorn singletons, the holidays are the loneliest time of year and, in the New Year, the $ 1 billion online dating industry sees a surge in users Because the US population is aging and becoming more obese, the University of Michigan believed it was time to modernize the design of crash - test dummies
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Because we hope to study both the learning and early emergence of generosity, we target the preschool age as our population of interest.
According to the NSF, the grant was awarded to Fong, in part, because her research helps social scientists understand the «social dynamics of childbearing and childrearing at a time when issues of population pressure and population ageing are increasingly pressing worldwide.»
Other approaches to examining school segregation in prior research rely on absolute numbers (e.g., a school is described as segregated because its enrollment is 90 % black), or characterize a school's enrollment as imbalanced relative to the demographics of the district or region (e.g., a school is described as segregated because its enrollment is 85 % black whereas the district's school age population is only 75 % black).
Yes of course there are more pupils in good or outstanding schools — there are more pupils because the school age population is growing!
That same study showed that, among the U.S. population of those age 18 to 39, 37 percent said they didn't have a driver's license because they were «too busy.»
That decline is partly because more and more of this population is unable to continue to work, but it also suggests that retirement savings may start to run out as people age.
To me, this is the central policy challenge of the 21st century, because a) globally, credit has surged relative to national income and has reached a limit, b) populations are aging and must therefore favor lower levels of credit — and consumption — overall and c) the bills associated with 1 and 2 are now coming due.
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