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Editorial - Dignity and older Europeans

Editorial - Dignity and older Europeans Win Tadd Senior Research Fellow, Academic Department Geriatric Medicine Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University I NTRODUCTION The right to and the need for dignity are frequently cited in policy documents relating to the health and social care of older people. Dignity is also expressed as an important value in professional codes and declarations of human rights. Yet concerns about the standards of care for a growing number of older people abound despite global ageing being a wellrecognised phenomenon. Today people live longer and enjoy better health than in the past. Medical and scientific advances have resulted in prolonging the average duration of human life. The term ‘third age’ now comprises a large proportion of the European population and denotes people who, although not in employment, have the resources to enable them to contribute to society in a variety of ways. The ‘young old’, as those aged between 65 and 70 are called, are often distinguished from older people in the ‘fourth age’, who are the ‘oldest old’ and are over 80 years. It is this latter group whose numbers are growing fastest. By 2050, over 100 million people in Europe will be over 65 years of age, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quality in Ageing and Older Adults Pier Professional

Editorial - Dignity and older Europeans

Tadd, Win
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults , Volume 6 (1) – Jun 1, 2005
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Win Tadd Senior Research Fellow, Academic Department Geriatric Medicine Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University I NTRODUCTION The right to and the need for dignity are frequently cited in policy documents relating to the health and social care of older people. Dignity is also expressed as an important value in professional codes and declarations of human rights. Yet concerns about the standards of care for a growing number of older people abound despite global ageing being a wellrecognised phenomenon. Today people live longer and enjoy better health than in the past. Medical and scientific advances have resulted in prolonging the average duration of human life. The term ‘third age’ now comprises a large proportion of the European population and denotes people who, although not in employment, have the resources to enable them to contribute to society in a variety of ways. The ‘young old’, as those aged between 65 and 70 are called, are often distinguished from older people in the ‘fourth age’, who are the ‘oldest old’ and are over 80 years. It is this latter group whose numbers are growing fastest. By 2050, over 100 million people in Europe will be over 65 years of age,

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Published: Jun 1, 2005

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