The challenges of human population ageing

TY - GEN

T1 - The challenges of human population ageing

AU - Sander, Miriam

AU - Oxlund, Bjarke

AU - Jespersen, Astrid Pernille

AU - Krasnik, Allan

AU - Mortensen, Erik Lykke

AU - Westendorp, Rudi Gerardus Johannes

AU - Juel Rasmussen, Lene

PY - 2015/3/1

Y1 - 2015/3/1

N2 - The 20th century saw an unprecedented increase in average human lifespan as well as a rapid decline in human fertility in many countries of the world. The accompanying worldwide change in demographics of human populations is linked to unanticipated and unprecedented economic, cultural, medical, social, public health and public policy challenges, whose full implications on a societal level are only just beginning to be fully appreciated. Some of these implications are discussed in this commentary, an outcome of Cultures of Health and Ageing, a conference co-sponsored by the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and the Center for Healthy Ageing at UCPH, which took place on 20-21 June 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

AB - The 20th century saw an unprecedented increase in average human lifespan as well as a rapid decline in human fertility in many countries of the world. The accompanying worldwide change in demographics of human populations is linked to unanticipated and unprecedented economic, cultural, medical, social, public health and public policy challenges, whose full implications on a societal level are only just beginning to be fully appreciated. Some of these implications are discussed in this commentary, an outcome of Cultures of Health and Ageing, a conference co-sponsored by the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and the Center for Healthy Ageing at UCPH, which took place on 20-21 June 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

U2 - 10.1093/ageing/afu189

DO - 10.1093/ageing/afu189

M3 - Conference article

SN - 0002-0729

SP - 185

EP - 187

JO - Age and Ageing

JF - Age and Ageing

IS - 44

ER -