Population aging trends will continue throughout the 21st century.
The global population age trend is increasing with the result that more patients are progressing to end stage osteoporosis, requiring joint replacement surgery.
2 While this is a 'young' population, there is a gradual aging trend with the percent under 10 years declining and the percent over 65 increasing.
Although the aging trend of the population admitted to intensive care continues, no statistical relationship was found between chronological age and mortality.
Aging trends in the population for 3 age groups (0 19, 20 64, 65 99) were analysed with Joinpoint models of the same kind.
A variety of policy implications, from public finance, allocation of social resources, to land use planning of rural areas and potential social conflicts, are discussed in response to the trend of population aging and immigrations from the Mainland.
Whether or not increased immigration might reverse the trend toward population aging and increasing dependency ratios has been hotly debated.
The first general trend is population aging, a major factor especially in Europe, North America, and China but also, although at a slower pace, in the rest of the world.
If fashionable wearables is the 21st century latest play in the "internet of things," why not then also leverage our other huge 21st century trend -- population aging?
Due to the capacity of reflecting accumulative health risks in old ages, this measurement holds important values in research and practice, especially for the public health system to face the unprecedented trend of population aging [ 30, 31].
