Sentences with phrase «growing older population»

«This study shows that such programs can benefit greatly the growing older population in Mexico and developing nations facing similar demographic challenges.»

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Retirement age, if needed, could be 72 - 75 as the population is growing older, but boards may not need retirement ages if they have all of the above.
The 34 - year - old married mother of a one - year - old girl had doubts about the government's ability to fund retirement for Japan's growing ranks of elderly in the world's oldest population.
With today's 18 - to 34 - year - olds coming from the population segment that grew up playing them, we've been able to motivate our younger team members beyond our wildest dreams.
We'll continue to see niche spaces grow in numbers, but at the same time, these big old spaces will continue to happen because there's a segment of the population that would rather be in giant spaces.
With a global population that is growing bigger, older, and richer, demand for the type of life - prolonging, life - improving, and life - saving therapeutics that Amgen develops and manufactures is only likely to grow.
And this is what it boils down to, it's actually a lack of money and a growing population of older people with no one else to look after them.
Born in 1941, Elshtain started learning about housekeeping and harsh necessity as the oldest of five children growing up in Timnath, Colorado, population about 185 then (and now).
And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable - waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.
I grew up in a place without much of a Jewish population so I didn't get much exposure until I got a little older and moved to Va..
Over the next 25 years, tthe number of older Americans are expected to grow to 22 % of the US population.
Moyo was thus uncriticically regurgitating the old Malthusian argument about «tragedies of the commons» occurring, mostly in developing countries, with population growth and environmental factors as the cause of growing poverty and civil strife.
And it's projected that the older - age population of New York will continue growing in coming decades, which at least in part reflects the departure of younger residents.
The future of social care remains a ticking time - bomb, and just last month the chief inspector of prisons told MPs that older prisoners are the fastest growing part of the jail population and the service is struggling to meet their needs.
«This greater than expected survival in older patients selected for operative therapy is noteworthy,» said Dr. Fernandez, «especially considering that the prevalence of lung cancer is expected to increase as the population continues to grow older and more people survive into old age.»
About 10 percent of Americans older than 65 have Alzheimer's, roughly 5 million people, a number that can only grow as the nation's population ages.
Loss of lean mass could have important consequences given the high risk of physical disability among the growing population of older adults.
Old questions about the age and structure of the Earth, for instance, have given way to issues concerning the planet's capacity to support a growing and aging population.
This survey comes at a time when the size of the older population is larger than ever and projected to keep growing.
As RR Lyrae stars typically reside in ancient stellar populations over 10 billion years old, this discovery suggests that the bulging centre of the Milky Way likely grew through the merging of primordial star clusters.
The absolute numbers of older Americans with dementia are sure to grow as the population ages in the coming decades, but new data suggest that the overall proportion with the condition is mysteriously declining.
«The older African American population is growing at a rapid pace, and the burden of aging - related cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease will continue to present a tremendous challenge,» said Lisa Barnes, PhD.
In Western society the population is growing older, the incidence of chronic disabilities which could be treated by stem cell therapy is steadily rising, and the availability of donor organs is not matching the need.
According to 2006 U.S. Census Bureau data, Americans who are at least 85 years old represent the fastest - growing population and are expected to account for 2.3 percent of the U.S. population in 2030 and 4.3 percent in 2050.
CQGS is working with more than 50 stakeholder organizations to develop standards based on best scientific evidence that will focus on delivering optimal surgical care for a rapidly growing older patient population.
You reported on the demographic shift in the US to a population with growing numbers of younger Hispanics and older...
As the internet's population has grown and got older, memorial pages and tribute sites have become commonplace.
Those 65 and older will account for 17 percent of the U.S. population by 2030, and those age 85 and older represent the fastest growing group in developed countries.1, 2
Philadelphia is an older, slower - growing city with more of an aging population than Atlanta or Phoenix.
«We expect to see the numbers of deaths attributable to NTM rise as the population continues to age and the numbers of older Americans continue to grow
The annual costs of dementia care, estimated by RAND researchers to be between $ 159 billion and $ 215 billion, could more than double by 2040 if the age - specific prevalence rate of the disease remains constant as the nation's population grows older.
Finally, the paper outlines the effects of an expansion in trade from the Bronze Age onwards, with a period of intense farming in response to growing human populations and emerging markets across the Old World.
The result is a growing population of ageing cats; in the USA, for example, it is estimated that 20 % of pet cats are 11 years of age or older.
Growing numbers of older people compared to younger ones in a population could create unsustainable burdens on social support and healthcare systems if a greater number of older people are dependent on a declining proportion of working - age people in the population.
Captive - raised toads whose parents were collected in the «old» populations (like Cairns) are fairly slow growing, and don't move around too much.
The world's older population is growing at an unprecedented rate with 8.5 percent of the worldwide population — 617 million people — age 65 and older, a proportion estimated to reach 17 percent by 2050, according to the National Institute on Aging.
Approximately 5.5 million Americans are living with the disease, and this number is expected to grow as the proportion of the U.S. population 65 years and older continues to increase.
Kids are not just little adults, and growing children who are strenuously exercising have several defining physiological characteristics that make them different than the older population.
The population of U.S. singles 15 and older (the Census Bureau's age cutoff) grew to 119.9 m in 2007 from 100.9 m in 2000 and 86.8 m in 1990, according to census data.
Many older people grew up loving movies, yet they aren't going to theatres in proportion to their numbers in the population.
Enrollment of 3 - and 4 - year - olds in early education programs now approaches 70 percent of that population and is growing annually.
In addition to the rapid growth of the U.S. population, there have been dramatic changes in the population's composition in the last 50 years: Americans are growing older, more educated, and more diverse.
In cities, people were concerned that the old ward systems couldn't absorb the growing populations of immigrants and others who were flooding into schools.
Now, as China closes the book on the policy after over three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers.
As a result, Canada's population has a growing proportion of older savers and a shrinking proportion of young borrowers.
With 68 % of Hispanics age 16 and older working in the civilian labor force and an estimated household median income of $ 38,039, according to U.S. Census Bureau, Hispanics represent a growing and thriving segment of the American population.
McDonald says 2.6 per cent of Canada's growing population of residents 55 years of age and older are financially abused, making it the second most common form of elder abuse.
With a global population that is growing bigger, older, and richer, demand for the type of life - prolonging, life - improving, and life - saving therapeutics that Amgen develops and manufactures is only likely to grow.
And more than 2.5 million are 85 or older — which is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
From there, the idea of government responsibility in providing economic security and welfare grew, from unimaginable realities, such as the English Poor Laws of 1601 that called for the dependent poor population to wear a shameful P on their clothing, to shadows of our present Social Security system, like Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice that called for a system that included annual benefits of 10 pounds sterling paid to every person age 50 and older, to protect against poverty in old - age.
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