Individuals may have positive and negative beliefs about their own aging. Despite the growing interest in researching beliefs about aging, relatively little attention has been paid to perceived stress in this area.
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Healthy aging has become a pressing concept due to the current increase in life expectancy around the world. However, this trend initiates more disabilities, risk of diseases, and dementia affecting quality of life of aging demographics. Functional ability, the capacity to perform activities of daily living, is one of the key indicators of quality of life and studying the predictors impacting functional abilities is crucial.
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Our natural tendency is to associate aging and old age with loss of functional abilities, cognitive abilities, status, occupation, identity, and social relations. Older women in particular, are seen as subject to both ageism and sexism, thus experiencing a double jeopardy, which hampers their ability to fulfil their potential, especially in the second half of life. Nevertheless, in addition to losses, older women may experience gains and positive developments in their lives.
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The standard tests of memory that clinicians use are not able to reliably detect dementia until the disease has progressed significantly - can this be changed?
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Population ageing is now a daunting challenge across the globe. In the last few decades, enormous advancement in medical science, coupled with a sharp decline in fertility, has accentuated the share of the elderly population and created the problem of population ageing. Compared to the developed world, the demographic transition is more challenging for the Asian countries like China and India because of the huge population size and inadequate social security system for the elderly citizens.
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The majority of us will require long-term care services and supports at some point during our later years, many in residential care settings. Historically, residential long-term care in North American and many Western European countries has included a range of options such as nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Considerable consumer, policy, and research efforts have focused on how to improve the quality of care that someone receives in such settings, as well as how to move from more medicalized and institutionalized approaches, to more person-centered and empowering approaches and home-like environments.
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