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Prospective longevity : a new vision of population aging /

"The study of aging is not fundamentally about how old people are. It is about people's capabilities and their disabilities. In the field of population aging, measurements have generally been made with instruments devised many decades ago. Those measurements systems did not take the changi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Sanderson, Warren C. (Autor), Scherbov, Sergei (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A brief history of measures of population aging
  • Mathematical appendix
  • Prospective ages
  • Mathematical appendix
  • How old do you need to be to be old?
  • How different are measures of population aging based on chronological and prospective age?
  • Note on NTA economic support ratios
  • Determining ages based on the characteristics of people
  • Mathematical appendix
  • The stage of old-age
  • Is the quality of life in old-age getting worse?
  • Survival trajectories: Russian regions and US states
  • The gender gap in survival
  • What would happen to population aging if life expectancy increase sped up?
  • If life expectancy continues to increase, will population aging ever stop?
  • Appendix
  • Intergenerationally equitable normal pension ages
  • Mathematical appendix
  • Choosing which pair of glasses to wear