Sentences with phrase «increasing older population»

This rise in demand will be the result of an increasing older population, which has a greater need for medical care.

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From 2001 to 2014, the population of people 40 or older increased by 47,276.

The population is aging, so it is only natural that the population of older workers would increase.

Over 82 % of the net increase in the working age population in the last year is in the group of those 55 years and older.

In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the armed forces of the United States, I was placed under the direction of an eccentric old man (also named George), a civilian employee who....

All older groups will continue to increase, with aging persons making up one - fifth of the population shortly after the year 2000.

Are you so damn blinded by your 2000 year old book of fiction to see that our world population is at a hefty 7 billion and is set to increase by another 2 billion in the next 8 years?

In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the armed forces of the United States, I was placed under the direction of an eccentric old man (also named George), a civilian employee who had spent over a decade helping monkeys reproduce in that laboratory colony.

With increased average lifespans, it means a grayer and grayer Taiwan: In 1994 people over sixty - five years old accounted for only 7 percent of the population; by 2036 the figure will be three times as large - which means a smaller percentage of workers.

Because of the high and ever - increasing prevalance of food allergies in Canada (7 % among the general population, and > 10 % of one - year olds), the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) considers allergy prevention a key health goal.

I suspect that if the trend to an older population should continue (birth rates are currently increasing though), Germany might simply fix that by encouraging immigration.

Not many 12 year olds could claim they learned how to build a space station to combat the world's ever - increasing population; let alone toured the London 2012 Olympic Park as a result of their innovative thinking.

On the one hand, the ANC have presided over 14 years of consecutive economic growth and totally defied those who predicted collapse; electricity now reaches 80 % of the population; 65 % of five year olds are enrolled at school, and social welfare assistance has increased four-fold.

In the next 20 years alone, the UK population between 65 - 84 years will increase by almost 40 % and the number of over 85 year olds by more than 100 %.

With the 65 - and - older population in the borough projected to increase to 103,000 by 2030 — for what will be a 100 percent increase from 2000 — Oddo said the development is critically important.

The state's population actually fell by 50,000 last year, to 19.75 million, even while the number of older residents increased as part of a national trend, census data revealed.

Although some scientists presumed the larger number of very old people in later years was due simply to a larger population base, the new data show the main cause is actually increased survival after age 70.

«With the world population getting older, the incidence of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and stroke will only increase,» says Professor Malte Kelm, Professor of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases and Vascular Medicine at University Hospital Düsseldorf and Scientific Director of FLAVIOLA.

Key findings in this study show that 5 - year survival for older lung cancer surgery patients is favorable; surgeons will be able to better individualize care for older lung cancer patients based on newly and uniquely linked data, and the prevalence of lung cancer is expected to increase as the population continues to age.

«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.»

The likelier scenario is a population implosion marked by increasing numbers of older, healthier citizens, and more women in positions of power, a situation that could be beneficial for child rearing, philanthropy, diplomacy, and other aspects of our civilized life.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

This enormous increase in the older portion of the population alone will drive more interest in research on aging and also require more services for those people.

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.

This is the first study to show that sleep duration has increased among broad segments of the United States population (students 15 and older, people who are employed, and retirees) over this period.

This trend seems to be in line with an overall increase in the use of prescription drugs by Americans, and the older population in general — 90 percent of people ages 65 and older have prescription expenses.

In a long - term, large - scale population - based study of individuals aged 55 years or older in the general population researchers found that those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) had a four-fold increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD) compared to cognitively healthy individuals.

With the population of older adults in the United States projected to increase significantly in the coming decades, more effective sarcopenia treatment and prevention could help control healthcare costs.

Young adults, particularly men, lag behind middle - aged and older adults in awareness and treatment of high blood pressure, putting this population at an increased risk for heart attack and stroke, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension.

«We believe the aging of the U.S. population is likely driving the increase in MCC, as this cancer is much more prevalent in older individuals,» Dr. Nghiem says, adding that weakened immunity in this population may play a role in the disease.

In contrast, among older women (50 - 74 years), rates were increasing for more than half (36/64) of populations examined, including most countries in Southern, Eastern, and Western Europe and South America.

In fact, in the Korean population low levels were related to increased diabetes prevalence in younger women and older men over 50 years.

Many countries including the UK and Japan are learning to live with populations with an increasing average age and higher proportions of their societies in the older age range.

In other words, the yield increases are really due to the old method of selection or population breeding, which farmers have relied on since agriculture began.

The researchers only found one study that supported increased calcium intake for lower fracture risk, but noted that the study, published in 1992, was in a frail population with notable vitamin D deficiency (vitamin D is also often recommended to prevent fracture in older adults).

Weight loss is the general recommendation for obese and overweight people, but losing fat and preserving muscle is especially important for older people for maximizing functional benefit given the physical disability risk in the increasing population of older people.

The University of Chicago researchers said the increased risk of premature death among women older than 50 «emphasizes the importance of other life - threatening health conditions in later life of the DES population.»

Based upon this comprehensive review of HMB literature, the primary position statements were that HMB enhances muscle recovery by attenuating muscle damage; HMB increases muscle hypertrophy, strength, and power in trained and untrained populations when the appropriate exercise protocol is applied; HMB efficacy is manifested in young and old; and HMB is safe to consume.

This leaves the older members of our population at increased risk for autoimmune diseases, infections, and cancer.

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.

Additionally testosterone can simultaneously increase lean mass and decrease fat mass in an older population (4).

Vegetable consumption tends to increase as individuals age, but fruit consumption is highest among the very young and oldest individuals in the population.

The proportion of young people entering higher education has increased to 21.7 % - the highest level recorded in recent years, and a 1 % increase from last year despite a fall in the population of Scottish 18 - year - olds.

If he was talking about four - year degrees, we will have to increase degree attainment rates by 1 percent a year over the next decade among the population of 25 - to 34 - year - olds just to pull even with the current leader for that age group (Norway), and no one expects the rest of the world to stand still while we try to catch up.

DPS enrollment has increased 25 percent since 2005, driven by population growth, residential development on a closed airport and military base, expanded preschool programs (available to most four - year - olds and a few three - year - olds), and students returning from neighboring districts.

That drop occurred despite a 16 percent increase in the 10 - to 14 - year - old female population, the report points out.

In the entire population of those ages 16 and older, the number who are aware that libraries offer e-book loans increased from 24 % last year to 31 % now.

This shift in the demography of the country toward the older population will likely increase the demand for nonfiction books.

The email I received from a colleague who had given her 95 year old mother a Nook and was requesting the loan period on ebooks be increased to 28 days because her mom couldn't finish a book in less than that (and 28 days is the standard loan period for a print book at that library) told me that ereaders were in the hands of a population that no one expected.

Another perspective on population aging is the rate at which the proportion of those age 65 and older increases.