Canada’s aging population is expected to have an impact on all public institutions; for public libraries, the emergence of a large, multi-generational user group of older adults challenges the current paradigm of services to seniors. This thesis examines a subset of this user group: baby boomer library patrons who are in a caring relationship with elders. It investigates how these patrons interact with the public library both for themselves, and as carers, in order to reveal library-related issues particular to this growing segment of the population. The study takes place within a conceptual framework derived from the ethic of care, and from emerging theories of library-as-place rooted in the fields of human geography and sociology. Using a qualitative instrumental case study method, long form interviews were conducted with respondents recruited through theoretical sampling extended by snowball sampling. While not generalizable, findings suggest that while these baby boomer respondents value their libraries deeply, there is potential to create services and practices more attuned to the needs of older adults who are in relationships with elders.

Canada’s aging population is expected to have an impact on all public institutions; for public libraries, the emergence of a large, multi-generational user group of older adults challenges the current paradigm of services to seniors. This thesis examines a subset of this user group: baby boomer library patrons who are in a caring relationship with elders. It investigates how these patrons interact with the public library both for themselves, and as carers, in order to reveal library-related issues particular to this growing segment of the population. The study takes place within a conceptual framework derived from the ethic of care, and from emerging theories of library-as-place rooted in the fields of human geography and sociology. Using a qualitative instrumental case study method, long form interviews were conducted with respondents recruited through theoretical sampling extended by snowball sampling. While not generalizable, findings suggest that while these baby boomer respondents value their libraries deeply, there is potential to create services and practices more attuned to the needs of older adults who are in relationships with elders.

According to the statistics from Department of Health, Executive Yuan, in 2007,brain attack has been listed as the third of the top ten reasons for death. In Taiwan, the occurrence rate of brain attack on population above 35-year-old is 3/1000. And the total amount of population above 35-year-old is nearly 10,000,000. Then the latest number of occurrence of brain attack is approximately 30,000¡COnce the stroke happens, under such a circumstance, not only the expense of acute care increases but also the long-term medical care expense, the family and social cost will become larger. In view of that, the long-term care plan for stroke patient has been in urgent need. This research, ¡¨Long-distance Community Health Care Nursing Service for Stroke Patients¡¨, which is originated from a plan conducted by a medical center in Southern Taiwan. Based on Andersen¡¦s¡]1968¡^health behavior model as the theoretical structure¡Awe studied 102 patients who had a stroke (including high stroke risk patients)within one year in Kaohsiung. In this study, we applied JMP V6.0¡]SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA¡^to analyzing case characters¡Aconducting univariate analysis by £q2 analysis and ANOVA. Then we applied multivariate logistic regression analyses to significant variables. We hope to find out the predisposition, enabling factors and need factor from those important predictor variables in ¡§Long-distance Community Health Care and Nursing Service¡¨. We research the differences of stroke patients¡¦ behaviors, providing those research results as the reference materials for related business promotional strategy in future, hoping to advance the quality of long-term care and nursing for stroke patients. In this study, total 102 copies of the questionnaire were sent out and returned, with a return rate of 100%, and 100 copies of questionnaire were effective. The research results show that: 1. Predisposition¡GThere are significant differences on these items--¡§Number of Children¡¨(Demography), ¡§Buddhist¡¨(Religion) and ¡§Those who have a health check within nearly one year¡¨(Health Concept). 2.Enabling factors¡GThere are significant differences on these items--¡¨Monthly Family Income¡¨(Economical factor),¡¨Monthly Balance of Payment¡¨(Economical factor) and ¡§Commercial Insurance¡¨(Insurance resource). 3.Need factors¡GPeople (those who think their health state stay at the average level), Health State (¡§High Blood Pressure and Heart Attack¡¨,¡¨Eye Diseases¡¨, ¡¨Cancer¡¨,¡¨Bone and Muscle¡¨,¡¨Asthma¡¨,¡¨Ears Disease¡¨and ¡¨Neural Diseases¡¨are involved. The behavior research includes ¡§Number of Accepting Medical Treatment per month¡¨(1 to 2 times), ¡§Activity in Daily Life ¡¨¡]ADL¡BIADL-Shopping Ability¡^and ¡§Functional Behaviors¡¨. 4. To sum up, the predisposition, enabling and need factors in this research could partially influence using behaviors¡Ain accordance with Andersen¡¦s inference in health behavior model. In conclusion¡G1.¡¨Long-term Community Health Care and Nursing¡¨ can be applied to stroke patients, which can help patients to build up effective self-management and advance life quality; 2. This service combines Medical Service Chain established by Information-Telegraphic Technology. Currently, blood pressure checking and telephone consultation are most popular service among interviewees, and other kinds of service are under development; 3. Stroke patients with different demographical characters show a great difference on using behaviors; 4. To speak briefly, this service can meet the ideal long-term care and nursing standard for local aging population.

Canada’s aging population is expected to have an impact on all public institutions; for public libraries, the emergence of a large, multi-generational user group of older adults challenges the current paradigm of services to seniors. This thesis examines a subset of this user group: baby boomer library patrons who are in a caring relationship with elders. It investigates how these patrons interact with the public library both for themselves, and as carers, in order to reveal library-related issues particular to this growing segment of the population. The study takes place within a conceptual framework derived from the ethic of care, and from emerging theories of library-as-place rooted in the fields of human geography and sociology. Using a qualitative instrumental case study method, long form interviews were conducted with respondents recruited through theoretical sampling extended by snowball sampling. While not generalizable, findings suggest that while these baby boomer respondents value their libraries deeply, there is potential to create services and practices more attuned to the needs of older adults who are in relationships with elders.

Many countries in the world experience demographic transition - significant decrease of fertility rates and increase share of the old population. The pace and characteristics of demographic shifts however are individual for each country. At the same time these countries face low inflation rates or even deflation. In this thesis I demonstrate how demographic changes are correlated with low inflation rates. I estimated two different models - VAR and FEM for panel data using two samples of developing countries. The primary argument of using two separate groups for estimating the same problem is robustness check, whether all three imposed hypotheses will hold in any sample of the population. These hypotheses are - first, deflation is positively correlated with increased share of the old population, second, low inflation in developing economies has structural pattern due to demographic changes and third, deflation can be forecastable if it is driven by demographic trends. Despite the heterogeneity of the results from PVAR and FEM, a negative impact of aging population on inflation has been proved. Also estimation results support our two hypotheses that low inflation if it is partially driven by aging structure changes, has structural rather than cyclical characteristics and is predictable. Contribution...

[pt] Neste estudo iremos empiricamente avaliar o impacto do envelhecimento da população na eficácia da política monetária. Primeiramente, estimaremos o impacto da política monetária sobre o hiato do produto e inflação, evidenciando um enfraquecimento geral da transmissão da política monetária ao longo do tempo. Em outras palavras, hiato do produto e inflação menos sensíveis às mudanças nas taxas de juros. Depois, utilizaremos o método de OLS para testar o efeito negativo e estatisticamente significativo das alterações demográficas na eficácia da política monetária. / [en] In this study we will empirically evaluate the impact of population aging on the effectiveness of monetary policy. First, we will estimate the impact of monetary policy on the output gap and inflation, evidencing a general weakening of monetary policy transmission over time. In other words, output gap and inflation are less sensitive to changes in interest rates. Then we will use the OLS method to test the negative and statistically significant effect of demographic changes on the effectiveness of monetary policy.

Le vieillissement de la population dans les pays développés fait surgir des enjeux dans le champ de la santé, parmi lesquels la déficience auditive tient une place importante. En France, environ 5,5 millions de personnes seraient malentendants. Des travaux ont été menés sur le retentissement des problèmes auditifs sur la vie quotidienne des individus présentant une déficience auditive liée à l’âge: difficultés de communication, isolement progressif, restrictions des activités quotidiennes sociales, modifications de l’humeur, troubles cognitifs... Le handicap et les conséquences précédemment listées vont avoir un impact sur la qualité de vie des individus et également celle de leur entourage. Le couple (ou dyade), formé par la personne déficiente et son aidant principal, va ainsi devoir faire face à l’installation progressive de la déficience. Celle-ci va modifier les relations entre les deux membres formant ce couple ainsi que les relations sociales du couple en général, qu’elles soient familiales, professionnelles ou sociales au sens large. Chaque membre du couple va mobiliser des stratégies d’adaptation qui lui sont propres. Dans le but d’explorer les différents mécanismes d’ajustement au sein de cette dyade et comprendre les liens potentiels entre la nature des stratégies d’ajustement utilisées sur leur qualité de vie, nous avons procédé séquentiellement à différentes étapes: 1. Lister les outils mesurant la qualité de vie des individus présentant une déficience auditive liée à l’âge ; 2. Identifier les déterminants de la qualité de vie de ces individus et celle de leurs proches ; 3. Examiner les liens entre les stratégies d’ajustement mobilisées par chaque membre. / The aging population in developed countries gives rise to considerable challenges in the health field, including hearing loss has a very important place. In France, about 5.5 million people are hearing impaired. Work has been conducted on the impact of hearing loss on the daily life of individuals with hearing loss related to age: communication difficulties, progressive isolation, restriction of social activities of daily living, mood changes, cognitive disorders ... The disability itself and all the consequences listed above will obviously have an impact on the quality of life of individuals and also those around them. The pair (or dyad), formed by the impaired person and his primary caregiver, itself defined as the person it considers most involved in his daily life, will thus be faced with the progressive installation of disability. This will gradually alter the relationship between the two members forming the couple and the social relations of the couple in general, be they family, professional or social at large. Each member of the couple will mobilize coping strategies of its own. In order to explore the various adjustment mechanisms within the dyad and understand the potential links between the nature of adjustment strategies on their quality of life, we performed sequentially at the following stages: 1. List tools for measuring quality of life of individuals with hearing loss related to age; 2. Identify the major determinants of the quality of life of these individuals and that of their close; 3. Examine the specific links between adjustment strategies used by each member of the dyad on its own quality of life and that of his close.

Aging population is becoming the potential social and economic problem for many governments all around the world. These countries including Taiwan are seeking for solutions for the increased healthcare spending. According to the United Nations’ population estimates, we are living in a rapidly aging world. The global share of what we call “senior” or people age over 65 is expected to rise from nearly 8% in 2015 to more than 14% by 2050. The situation in Taiwan is not much different. With increasing life expectancy and a birth rate that continues to decline, the aging population in Taiwan has become more and more obvious. Widespread adoption of Generic and Biosimilar drugs, as opposed to patented or brand name drugs, could help governments reduce healthcare costs and increase the reach of healthcare services. Patented drugs in the prescription drugs segment account for about 70% of total prescription spending in Taiwan. However, the share is set to decline gradually under pressure from government policies promoting the use of generic products and the increasing switches from prescription segment to OTC segment (RX-to-OTC). We expect the penetration of generic drugs in Taiwan OTC drugs segment to increase as the generic drug market has continued to gain prominence within the pharmaceutical sectors in recent years. Despite the fact that OTC generic drug market is a highly competitive market in Taiwan, Genedex Co. still aims to provide good quality generic drugs at a competitive price to meet the generic drugs demands. In addition, Genedex Co. understands the ability to quickly bring new products to the market will play a large role in the future success. Thus, product innovation and differentiation will also be the center focus in the business model. Looking into the future, Genedex Co. expects to see growth at a more rapid pace starting from year 2020 as newly developed generic OTC drugs will be introduced to the market to compete with the branded counterparts and also expects to achieve a more solid presence in the market by year 2021.

Canada’s aging population is expected to have an impact on all public institutions; for public libraries, the emergence of a large, multi-generational user group of older adults challenges the current paradigm of services to seniors. This thesis examines a subset of this user group: baby boomer library patrons who are in a caring relationship with elders. It investigates how these patrons interact with the public library both for themselves, and as carers, in order to reveal library-related issues particular to this growing segment of the population. The study takes place within a conceptual framework derived from the ethic of care, and from emerging theories of library-as-place rooted in the fields of human geography and sociology. Using a qualitative instrumental case study method, long form interviews were conducted with respondents recruited through theoretical sampling extended by snowball sampling. While not generalizable, findings suggest that while these baby boomer respondents value their libraries deeply, there is potential to create services and practices more attuned to the needs of older adults who are in relationships with elders.

The topic of this diploma thesis is the social context of demographic changes and the consequences for social policy of the state with a focus on active aging and with respect to support of employment. In the first part of the thesis are described the basic terms and theoretical backgrounds. Emphasis is put on the social context of demographic changes and issue of active aging. Described are an international genesis and important international documents and initiatives to support active aging. In the second part of the thesis are analyzed the speed of aging, employment in old age and health of the elderly. In the research was ascertained how are applied the methods of Age Management in the banking sector of the Czech Republic. In the conclusion all gained data are evaluated.