Ageing, Care Need and Quality of Life

1. Front Matter

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2. Projections of Care Need and Care Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. People in Need of Long-term Care: The Present and the Future

      • Heiko Pfaff

      Pages 14-28

   3. Care Need Projections for Germany until 2050

      • Eckart Bomsdorf, Bernhard Babel, Jens Kahlenberg

      Pages 29-41

   4. Care Need Projections by Marital Status and Childlessness for Germany 2000-2030 based on the FELICIE Project

      • Gabriele Doblhammer, Uta Ziegler

      Pages 42-60

   5. Projection of Care Need and Family Resources in Germany

      • Erika Schulz

      Pages 61-81

   6. Cohort Trends in Disability and Future Care Need in Germany

      • Rainer Unger

      Pages 82-93

   7. Projections of the Number of People with Dementia in Germany 2002 Through 2047

      • Uta Ziegler, Gabriele Doblhammer

      Pages 94-111

3. Health Factors and Care Determinants

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. The Effect of Sex, Obesity and Smoking on Health Transitions: A Statistical Meta-analysis

      • Gabriele Doblhammer, Rasmus Hoffmann, Elena Muth, Wilma Nusselder

      Pages 114-142

   3. Demand for Long-term Residential Care and Acute Health Care by Older People in the Context of the Ageing Population of Finland

      • Mike Murphy, Pekka Martikainen

      Pages 143-162

   4. Old Age, the Need of Long-term Care and Healthy Life Expectancy

      • Elke Hoffmann, Juliane Nachtmann

      Pages 163-176

   5. Trends in Individual Trajectories of Health Limitations: A Study based on the German Socio-Economic Panel for the Periods 1984 to 1987 and 1995 to 1998

      • Gabriele Doblhammer, Uta Ziegler

      Pages 177-201

4. Care Givers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Perceived Care Giver Burden of Spouses and Children in Flanders: Who’s Feeling more Burdened and Why?

      • Benedicte De Koker

      Pages 204-221

   3. Voluntary Care Giving in the Life Course of Women in Eastern and Western Germany

      • Tatjana Mika, Michael Stegmann

      Pages 222-240

5. Back Matter

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Steadily increasing life expectancy is one of the great achievements of industrialised societies over the last century. Life expectancy has not only been growing among the young and those reaching retirement age, but also, especially in recent decades, among people ages 80 and above. These improvements in life expectancy have led to the emergence of the so-called third age, when people retire, but are still you- ful, healthy and able to participate in society. Nevertheless, closer to the end of life, a fourth age of decrepitude and dependence on others has to be anticipated. - spite the postponement of functional limitations and severe disabilities into higher ages, the debate continues over whether the additional years gained are healthy years, or years with severe care need, particularly among the oldest old, the fastest growing segment of the population. Future improvements in life expectancy and the health status of the elderly will determine the need for care in the future. While different assumptions about these trends based on expert opinion or the extrapolation of past experiences can be made, there will always be a degree of uncertainty about future trends. A third - portant factor driving the extent of future care need is, however, already determined by the history of the past century and is embedded in the age structures of our populations.

• Care determinants
• Demography
• Health factors
• Home care
• Sociology
• aging
• dementia
• sex

• Institute of Sociology and Demography, University of Rostock, Germany

  Gabriele Doblhammer

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Doblhammer is Professor for Empirical Social Science and Demography at the University of Rostock and Director of the Rostock Center for the Study of Demographic Change.
Dr. Rembrandt Scholz is Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock.

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