Sentences with phrase «by aging populations»

The recent growth is driven, experts say, by aging populations and increased life expectancy in the developed world; combination products that couple a medical device with a drug, the device usually acting as a drug - delivery vehicle; miniaturization (via nanotechnology), making medical devices less invasive; and the use of molecular diagnostics to customize therapeutic regimens and to assess individual disease risk.

Enter brain fitness, a new healthy - living trend driven not only by the aging population but also by developments in technology and neuroscience.

The real concern is not how do we address any one situation created by our aging population, but how do we address all of them at once?

The health care industry, in general, continues to be an attractive field, driven in large part by the aging population.

There is the joke about nursing homes being populated by an aging population with breast and penal implants who can no longer remember what they should do with them.

«Health and care services need to rise to the challenge of responding to the increasingly complex conditions suffered by our ageing population,» said Dave Behan, CQC chief executive.

The problem is caused by the ageing population, which means that healthcare costs are rising faster than inflation.

Areas such as the legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games, the challenges to public services presented by an ageing population and the future of the Arctic all brought important issues to public and government attention.

Perhaps this global trend toward loving and pampering pets — even treating cats and dogs like children and spending indulgent amounts of money on them — can be explained by the aging population and declining birth rates worldwide, as did a report on global pet industry trends by market research provider Companiesandmarkets.com.

About The Surge Set in a heavily dystopian future as Earth nears the end of its life, those who remain in the overpopulated cities must work to survive as social programs become saturated by an ageing population and increasing environmental diseases.

«Those who remain in the overpopulated cities must work to survive as social programs become saturated by an ageing population and increasing environmental diseases», reads the official press release.

This job growth is expected due in part to the higher demand for medical care, especially routine and preventive care provided in doctor's offices and clinics, which in turn is being driven by an aging population.

The growing demand for certified medical assistants is fueled by an aging population and a rapid expansion of the preventive medical field.

Not exact matches

Parties will need to explain how they will create broad - based economic growth, given the challenges brought by automation, globalization and an aging population.

Statistics Canada predicts that the proportion of seniors could, by 2031, equal the level now seen in Japan, which has the oldest population in the G7 with one - quarter of people over age 65.

If the present birth rate of 1.37 births for women of childbearing age continues, Japan could lose one - third of its population by the middle of this century.

In the last 12 months, Canada has added 118,500 part - time jobs while shedding 3,100 net full - time ones, despite the working age population (defined as those 15 and older) rising by 374,200, approximately the population of London, ON.

Marketers, trying to get ahead of these shifts, sift through data, segment populations by age, region and any other relevant trait, analyze shopping behavior and worry about what millennials might do next.

As our country's population continues to age (according to the U.S. Census, by the year 2030, there will be over 57.8 million «baby boomers» between the ages of 66 and 84), the demand for quality homecare is sure to increase.

With 66 % of its population under the age of 35, India is set to reap an unprecedented 40 - year demographic dividend similar to those enjoyed by industrializing Europe and the Far Eastern «tiger» states at the peak of their growth.

As much as 3.9 per cent of B.C.'s population is employed by a startup company, defined as a company under two years of age, and that's nearly double the share in Manitoba, the province with the lowest relative rate of startup activity.

By this time it will account for 26 percent of the world's working age population.

According to the European Commission's Ageing Report, Germany's population of 81 million is projected to fall to 71 million by 2060.

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.

Just over a quarter of Japan's population is aged 65 and over and that number is projected to rise to a third by 2035, according to Japanese government data.

A striking 46 percent of renters ages 25 to 34 — the core of the millennial population — spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent, up from 40 percent a decade earlier, according to a report by Harvard University's Joint Center of Housing Studies.

He said that half of India's population is under the age of 26, and it's that generation «that will use these technologies» enabled by an Internet - connected society.

By 2050, almost third of the population is projected to be over the age of 60.

The number of consumer fixed Internet users was not taken directly from an analyst source but was estimated from analyst forecasts for consumer broadband connections, data on hotspot users from a variety of government sources, and population forecasts by age segment.

Under his watch, Tennessee adopted the Drive to 55 initiative in 2013, which set the goal of awarding 55 % of the working - age population post-secondary degrees or certificates by 2025.

Social Security spending has also been affected by aging of the population.

Over the past year, the number of people with jobs has increased by more than 2 1/2 per cent, a positive outcome given that the working - age population is increasing at around 1 1/2 per cent a year.

Demand will remain strong / prices high and yields low thanks to the need for income and portfolio stability by rapidly aging populations in Japan, Europe, and U.S.

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Statistics Canada reported a loss of 39,000 jobs in July, even as Canadaâ $ ™ s working - age population grew by 39,000.

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Watch the generations fly by in this animation showing the changing age composition of the U.S. population.

The low employment rate, which applies in the 25 - 54 age group as well as the full population of working age adults, can not be explained away by baby boomer retirements.

This trend will speed up as the population aged 60 and over reaches 42 per cent of the country's total by 2050.

Kevin Page, the parliamentary budget officer, recently estimated that an aging population — which means a smaller tax haul and bigger health and other outlays — will leave Ottawa and the provinces with a $ 46 - billion - a-year fiscal gap to fix by cutting spending or hiking taxes.

While the assumptions about the future unemployment rate may be affected by policy, the fact is that slower U.S. population growth, coupled with an aging population, place substantial limits on labor force growth, which will leave U.S. GDP growth almost entirely dependent on changes in productivity.

We divided the total number of Millennials (which we defined as those aged 20 - 34) in each city and town by the total population.

In London, the working - age population rose by more than 40,000 during the decade, yet there were nearly 6,000 fewer employed persons.

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In turn, this decline is being driven primarily by the aging of our population, which is slowing the rate of growth of the labour force.

«Among the working - age population, the rise in income for middle - class families has been fuelled by higher female employment rates, and, to a lesser extent, by higher wages and tax reductions,» says the presentation delivered to Flaherty.