Title: Strategies to maximize health and functioning and increase life expectancy.

POPLINE Document Number: 163905

Author(s):

Manton KG
Stallard E

Source citation:

In: Resources and population: natural, institutional, and demographic dimensions of development, edited by Bernardo Colombo, Paul Demeny, and Max F. Perutz. Oxford, England, Clarendon Press, 1996. :200-23.

Abstract:

This chapter explores ways to maintain good health and active function in the elderly population in a time of increasing life expectancy and demographic aging. The authors present "a model which represents the effects of nutrition, exercise, and other nontechnical interventions, societal conditions, and the interface of individual physiology and social conditions on functioning and survival. This model can be used to forecast changes in active life expectancy in developing and developed countries." (EXCERPT)

Keywords:

Developed Countries
Developing Countries
Demographic Aging
Life Expectancy
Health
Models, Theoretical
Population Dynamics
Demographic Factors
Population
Length of Life
Mortality
Research Methodology