Demografické souvislosti stárnutí

• Authors: Dimitrova M.

Title variants

EN

DEMOGRAPHIC CONTEXT OF AGING

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Old age and aging of individuals are phenomena that took important place in society as early as former times. During twentieth century the question of aging got new meaning, because it newly started to overreach from individual level to all-society. As a result of improvement of some social conditions (f.e. medical care, lifestyle, hygiene, living standard etc.), that was already initiated approximately at the beginning of the nineteenth century, dying started to be moved to higher age and people live longer. In modern societies this event usually goes with decline of natality and fertility. In final effect combination of these two factors causes the process that is known as demographic aging. In general we have to distinguish between two views on problems of aging. The first view is focused on individual aging, the second one on demographic aging of human population. But it is clear that both of these views relate to each other. Similarly this article offers the roundup of problems of demographic aging, but also gives a touch of questions about longevity and quality of life, that gain ground in connection with theme of individual aging.

Keywords

EN

AGE STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC (POPULATION) AGING; INDIVIDUAL AGING; LONGEVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY
• OTHER_SOCIAL_SCIENCES: OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše společnost (Our Society)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 24-30
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dimitrova M.

• M. Dimitrova, Centrum pro vyzkum verejneho mineni, Sociologicky ustav AV CR, v.v.i., Jilska 1, 110 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA03346892