PAHO today: Development and Priorities, relevance for the Aging population
PAHO today: Development and Priorities, relevance for the Aging population
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Robot Caregivers (One More Thing) — Inside E Street
With an ever increasing aging population, engineers are now looking at robots to help aid the elderly.
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“Changing Your Mind” Trailer
For centuries the human adult brain has been thought to be incapable of fundamental change. Now the discovery and growing awareness of neuroplasticity has revolutionized our understanding of the brain — and has opened the door to new treatments and potential cures for many diseases and disorders once thought incurable. Neuroscience is past viewing the human brain as a machine, as it once did, where, if one part breaks down or doesn’t work properly, the function it performed is permanently gone, in all cases. Indeed, in just the past few years, we’ve built on our knowledge that our brains are constantly changing their structure and function and that the adult brain is not “hard-wired” but plastic — always changing. It applies even in old age — a particularly hopeful note for an aging population like ours.
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The New Economic Reality: Demographic Winter One of the most ominous events of modern history is quietly unfolding. Social scientists and economists agree – we are headed toward a demographic winter which threatens to have catastrophic social and economic consequences. The New Economic Reality reveals the dangers now facing the world’s economies and societies as human capital dramatically declines and an aging population structure becomes pervasive – dangers far more imminent than global warming and at least as severe.
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read moreVIDEO: David Baxter of Urban Futures on demographics and construction
Urban Futures senior advisor David Baxter was the keynote speaker at the recent The Canadian Construction Association held in Vancouver. Baxter explained the impact of a shrinking labour force, an aging population, and the need for construction to expand past its traditional labour pool. Given lengthening life spans and a ballooning population of seniors, it is vital that more infrastructure is built to serve that cohort, but that same age group is also retiring from high level positions in the construction industry, causing a significant labour gap. The solution, he said is increased immigration, along with drawing from non-traditional sources for labour such as women, aboriginal workers and the disabled. Baxter also outlined the changing business climate for Canadian firms, pointing to opportunities in green building and overseas work, while cautioning that foreign companies will do the same in Canada. Long term, he said, non-residential construction will be the driver that keeps the industry moving forward. JOC DIGITAL MEDIA
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