An insight into the issue of China’s rapidly ageing population. Elderly people in China are traditionally venerated. But the speed of China’s development is causing social and demographic change. More and more elderly people are choosing to live in retirement homes rather than putting pressure on their children.
Stratfor’s Colin Chapman, just back from China, and VP of East Asia analysis Rodger Baker examine the current state of Chinese demographics, corruption, social unrest and relaxing media restrictions under the one-party system of government.
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It is estimated that between 5.6 million and 8 million older Americans — 14 percent to 20 percent of the nation’s overall elderly population — have one or more mental health conditions or problems stemming from substance misuse or abuse.
Will Baby Boomers drain America dry? Or will they give us the greatest reserve of human capital in history?
Let Baby Boomers Retirement Network guide you through the real statistics behind the Baby Boomer generation and answer your questions about how this will affect our future.
At least 5.6 million to 8 million – nearly one in five – older adults in America have one or more mental health and substance use conditions, which present unique challenges for their care. With the number of adults age 65 and older projected to soar from 40.3 million in 2010 to 72.1 million by 2030, the aging of America holds profound consequences for the nation.
For decades, policymakers have been warned that the nation’s health care workforce is ill-equipped to care for a rapidly growing and increasingly diverse population. In the specific disciplines of mental health and substance use, there have been similar warnings about serious workforce shortages, insufficient workforce diversity, and lack of basic competence and core knowledge in key areas.
Following its 2008 report highlighting the urgency of expanding and strengthening the geriatric health care workforce, the IOM was asked by the Department of Health and Human Services to undertake a complementary study on the geriatric mental health and substance use workforce. The Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults: In Whose Hands? assesses the needs of this population and the workforce that serves it. The breadth and magnitude of inadequate workforce training and personnel shortages have grown to such proportions, says the committee, that no single approach, nor a few isolated changes in disparate federal agencies or programs, can adequately address the issue. Overcoming these challenges will require focused and coordinated action by all.
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Thanks to its revolutionary components, Phinergy’s…
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Our UK agents Handsome Frank organised an exhibition with a twist. Each artist was a given a brief that was tweeted online, suggested by their twitter followers. We chose this brief from @ejikeanyanwu 'A balloon full of multiple colours of paint, burst by a bullet, spilling onto a blank canvas. Represents creativity.' We've explored water colo […]
Código is a leading Mexican magazine reporting in current art, architecture, design, fashion and style tendencies worldwide, in other words, a Zeitgeist vessel of our era. Struggling with an expired identity, an uncomfortable reading format and displaced generic perception, Código approached us with the task to redesign its entire structure and image. We gav […]
Why don't an app that allows you to controls all your web account as your portfolios or socials without enter in that specific website. So I started to imagine how the UI could help users to have all of them under control. I've designed specifically two UI about my favorite website: Behance & Dribbble. I love these website and allows me to spre […]
ROF // RELEASE THE FUNK COLLABORATION // The Renegades of funk is a vector &mixed media collaboration featuring 6 international artists with various styles & techniques. We mixed our passion for urban digital art withour far-eastern graphic art influences to create this supafly Funk-STYLE-mashup! ?say jam sucka! jam!?....... […]
Vault49 is doing our bit for the Big Bailout. Budgets are being butchered all around the world, and even worse it?s been done in such bad taste. These finely crafted financial tools should trim the fat nicely. Sink your teeth into these viciously hand-crafted beauties. […]
(c) 2013 www.madameperipetie.com ALPHA is inspired by Zaha Hadid's futuristic creation - the Galaxy Soho in Bejing. It focuses on a body as a sculptural canvas and documents the transformation of the model into a piece of fluid architecture. Photography & Art direction: Madame Peripetie Photo assistants: Natasha Alipour-Faridani / Salvador Dewald St […]
Gomez is a Bar that responds to the basic necessity of night life in a city; a place where people can listen to good music and drinks. The creative concept behind it is very simple: a classic mix of a common pub scene with graphic elements and contemporary art that unite the traditional and the innovative. The use of different types of wood and warm, indirec […]
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the sizes and patterns of dunes on Saturn's moon Titan vary as a function of altitude and latitude. The dunes in areas that are more elevated or are higher in latitude, such as in the Fensal region pictured at bottom left, tend to be thinner and more widely separated, with gaps that have a thinner cover […]
On Saturday, Autodesk announced it is purchasing Tinkercad and reinstating the service. The move comes in time to prevent the previously announced shutdown of any accounts or services, and users can start creating new accounts immediately. […]
When you?re an insomniac freelance writer who works from home, you end up seeing a lot of infomercials, and eventually, those things will wear you down. No matter how skeptical you might start off, you will eventually get to a point where you?ll start to wonder if there actually is somebody out there with a better way to fry eggs, chop tomatoes and make milk […]
As one of just a few hundred limited-edition bikes produced by Cerv?lo's Project California division, the RCA is a neatly packaged compendium of its creator's two-decades-deep body of engineering knowledge. […]
How many rings do you see in this new image of the galaxy Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736? While at first glance one might see a number of them, astronomers believe there is just one. This image was captured in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. […]
This week, the broadcast TV networks announced their new shows for the 2013/2014 TV season. If you're overwhelmed by the choice, here are ten to watch. […]
The military doesn't want to take sexual assault cases out of the chain of command. But as scandals compile and Congress prepares to act, it may have to. […]
So, there's a new trailer for director Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim. However, on another YouTube channel not so far away, there's also a new, not as sleek but equally entertaining trailer for Atlantic Rim ? the mockbuster by The Asylum. How do they stack up? Let's find out. […]
Star Trek Into Darkness costume designer Michael Kaplan readily admits that he wasn?t a Star Trek fan prior to being hired for the 2009 reboot. Still, with iconic sci-fi movies like Blade Runner and Armageddon under his belt, he was confident he could capture and improve the look of Starfleet, updating the occasionally clunky aesthetic of the original series […]
Tomorrow marks the official release of the DSM-5, a hugely influential diagnostic guide that defines disorders of the mind. Many experts say it's fundamentally flawed, and efforts to develop a better alternative have begun. […]
Each week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world's cityscapes interesting. Check back Fridays for the continuing series, and feel free to make recommendations in the comments, by Twitter, or by e-mail. […]
Today's dubious lesson in technology as explained by movies: 1995's Evolver in which a teenage videogame fan wins an indestructible military robot in a contest and it works out pretty much exactly as you expect. […]
A roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America. […]
Edward Lorenz wasn't planning to spark a scientific revolution when he published his famous paper on weather models in 1963. But the unexpected behavior of his equations opened the door to an entirely new field: chaos theory. Fifty years later, Samuel Arbesman takes a look at what this new way of scientific thinking has wrought. […]
[HTML1] It was a watch so beautiful, so elegant, so precise, that it could only have been meant for royalty. Then it vanished without a trace. | Photo: David Silberman/Getty Images The tiny Simca 1000 Sedan puttered through the winding streets of a tony enclave near Israel's presidential residence. The spring evening ... […]
We are homogenizing our crops and homogenizing our people. And Big Pharma seems intent on pursuing a parallel attempt to create its own brand of human monoculture. With an assist from an overly ambitious psychiatry -- given tomorrow's impending release of the DSM-5 -- all human difference is being transmuted into chemical imbalance meant to be treated w […]
The Syrian disaster is like a superstorm. It’s what happens when drought, a fast-growing population, a repressive and corrupt government, and sectarian and religious passions combine. […]
With the resignation of Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, goes the progress made toward transparent governance and a two-state solution. […]
