Add to ORKGThis paper evaluates the demand and supply side of healthcare for older adults in a global context and presents a plausible scenario, with examples taken from a number of selected countries, of the current position of the healthcare workforce caring for older adults. This talk will also explore the gap between the current healthcare situation and the actual support and care that are needed to help and ensure a healthy ageing population. While acknowledging that there are a good number of healthcare workers in some countries, it’s also true that they do not receive adequate training or possess the necessary skills to deliver appropriate support and care to elderly people. Findings from a recent survey on the Nigerian care workforce are share...
Background: The increase in the number of elderly persons in developing countries has not had a corr...
Countries around the world have committed to achieving universal health coverage as part of the Sust...
Background: COVID-19 has a direct impact on the employment of older people. This adds to the challen...
Covid-19 has shaken the world in telling us how important the public health is in addition to a well...
Introduction: Aging oftentimes comes with health-related issues. Usually, family members are obliged...
Population ageing is a phenomenon affecting developed and developing countries alike and represents...
Background: Awareness of ageing in Africa emerged in the early 1980s and was launched by the 1st UN ...
There is a growing focus on interventions at the health system level to promote healthy aging and pr...
BACKGROUND: In the past century, there has been a significant rise in life expectancy in almost all ...
Ageing has become a global phenomenon and indeed a critical policy issue receiving some recognition ...
This report contextualises the findings of the Bupa Health Pulse 2010 international healthcare surve...
Abstract: Like any other country in sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria’s elderly population too is increasi...
The paper examines how the healthcare and social care pillars of social policy for aging societies s...
There is a growing focus on interventions at the health system level to promote healthy aging and pr...
The trend of population ageing is a critical global condition and is expected to impose dire socio-e...
Background: The increase in the number of elderly persons in developing countries has not had a corr...
Countries around the world have committed to achieving universal health coverage as part of the Sust...
Background: COVID-19 has a direct impact on the employment of older people. This adds to the challen...
Covid-19 has shaken the world in telling us how important the public health is in addition to a well...
Introduction: Aging oftentimes comes with health-related issues. Usually, family members are obliged...
Population ageing is a phenomenon affecting developed and developing countries alike and represents...
Background: Awareness of ageing in Africa emerged in the early 1980s and was launched by the 1st UN ...
There is a growing focus on interventions at the health system level to promote healthy aging and pr...
BACKGROUND: In the past century, there has been a significant rise in life expectancy in almost all ...
Ageing has become a global phenomenon and indeed a critical policy issue receiving some recognition ...
This report contextualises the findings of the Bupa Health Pulse 2010 international healthcare surve...
Abstract: Like any other country in sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria’s elderly population too is increasi...
The paper examines how the healthcare and social care pillars of social policy for aging societies s...
There is a growing focus on interventions at the health system level to promote healthy aging and pr...
The trend of population ageing is a critical global condition and is expected to impose dire socio-e...
Background: The increase in the number of elderly persons in developing countries has not had a corr...
Countries around the world have committed to achieving universal health coverage as part of the Sust...
Background: COVID-19 has a direct impact on the employment of older people. This adds to the challen...