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ChatGPT: A Game-changer for Personalized Mental Health Care for Older Adults?
Mental health is an increasingly important issue facing the expanding population of older adults. The landscape of mental health challenges for older adults is multifaceted, with concerns ranging f...
Has the Representation of Older Women Changed in Contemporary Popular Culture?
International Woman’s Day this year got me thinking about how older women are represented in popular culture. Every eighth of March we celebrate the achievements of women from across the...
Digital Inclusion for Older Adults: The Role of Educational Gerontechnology
As we advance further into the 21st century, it is clear that populations are ageing, and technology is developing at an unprecedented rate. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to pay attention to the ...
Does the use of assistive devices by community-dwelling older adults reduce the amount of informal caregiving hours they receive?
A recent systematic review by Marasinghe et al. revealed that there is minimal evidence that the use of assistive devices by community-dwelling older adults (65 years and above) could reduce the am...
The Continuous Debate on the Connection between an Ageing Population and Inflation
For more than a year, surging worldwide inflation has become a topic of hot discussion and concern for politicians, business leaders and the general public. After decades of low inflation, the situ...
Is Romance and Falling in Love Generally for the Young?
On Valentine’s Day 2023, the Institute of Population Ageing held a debate on whether romance and falling in love were generally experienced by the young. Haoyu Suo and Pianpian Zhao responded...
The Importance of Family in Latin America
This is the story of our times, the story of the family, once a dense cluster of many siblings and extended kin, fragmenting into ever smaller and more fragile forms. The initial result of that fra...
Towards an Effective Care Economy for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region
2022 witnessed the fourth MIPPA review. The review was accompanied by several positive developments addressing the ageing transition in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The...
Dipping into the Political Economy of Adult Learning Systems
I’m guessing that most people who read this blog will be familiar with Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare regimes. The distinction between liberal, conservative and social democratic...
Psychotherapy for Older Adults: Specifics and Challenges
In my experience as a clinical psychologist, I have come across reports from professional colleagues concerning the increased demand for psychology clinics aimed at older adults. While psychologica...
Positive Ageing and the Role of Public Policy in the United Arab Emirates
Countries around the world are employing various approaches to promote positive ageing in order to maintain healthy populations. These run regardless of whether inhabitants are predominantly older ...
Expanding Age Problems Require Expanding Design
Designing for an ageing population has become so familiar in recent years that it can be hard to remember a time when it was not a mainstream practice and positioned only at the margins of research...
Why the Dominance of Choice-Talk in the Media Debate on Death and Dying in Late Life is Problematic
In many Western societies, the dominance of choice-talk in the public debate about good ageing and dying is clearly visible. Research in various Western jurisdictions, including a new Dutch study t...
For All at All Ages: Universal Health Coverage is only “Universal” if Older People are Included
As the 12th of December is Universal Health Coverage Day, it is worth remembering that on the 10th of October 2019 the world’s governments agreed on a UN General Assembly resolution, committi...
Empowerment through Technology? Offering Virtual Reality in Care Homes
In the context of global calls for society-wide initiatives to foster healthy ageing, technology is often implicated as an enabling feature of age-friendly environments. A recent review described t...