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    The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill, 2007

    Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, 2007
    The Indian Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill, 2007 is an initiative of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.  The Bill states that adult children and grandchildren who are earning members are required to maintain and take care of their parents or grandparents. Maintenance refers to the provision of proper food, clothing, housing and medical treatment.
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    Support by migrants to their elderly parents in rural Cambodia and Thailand: a comparative study

    Population Council, USA, 2007
    Internal migration in Southeast Asia raises questions about strains upon traditional systems of support for older adults. This paper focuses on the adult children of older persons living in rural Cambodia and Thailand and examines the determinants of personal visits, monetary remittances, and more general forms of household support.
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    Reasons for not reporting deaths: a qualitative study in rural Vietnam

    Journal of World Health and Population, 2007
    Mortality rate is an important indicator for the health status of a population. Valid mortality data are obtained only when deaths are reported and registered properly.
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    Legislative brief: the maintenance and welfare of parents and senior citizens bill, 2007

    Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2007
    This brief highlights the main clauses of the 2007 Indian bill that makes it a legal obligation for Indian children and heirs to provide maintenance to senior citizens, and also permits state governments to establish old age homes in every district. The brief offers an analysis of the main components of the bill.
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    World population highlights: key findings From PRB's 2007 world population data sheet

    Population Reference Bureau, 2007
    We entered the 21st century with 6.1 billion people. In 2007, world population is calculated to be 6.6 billion. The increase in the size of the human population in the last half-century is unprecedented - and nearly all of the growth is occurring in the less developed countries.
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    Cross-country variation in obesity patterns among older Americans and Europeans

    Labour and Population Program, Rand, 2007
    In Europe, obesity rates are generally lower than in the U.S, but there is a rising trend in obesity that is being seen as a serious threat to public health and an important factor driving up health care costs.
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    Annals of Long-Term Care

    Annals of Long-Term Care: Clinical Care and Aging is a monthly, peer-reviewed clinical journal of the American Geriatrics Society, focusing on the diagnosis and management of LTC residents.
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    Treatment of alcohol-related problems in the elderly

    Annals of Long-Term Care, 2007
    This paper argues that alcoholism in the elderly is underdiagnosed and undertreated. As important as the situation is presently, it will become more imperative with the ageing of the baby boom generation. The report describes the existence of two different groups in terms of age of onset of alcoholic drinking:
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    Why do Japanese workers remain in the labor force so long?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2007
    As part of the search for answers to questions about what could be done to increase labour force participation rates among older American workers, this paper looks at recent developments in Japan, one of the few industrial nations that has substantially higher labour force participation rates among older workers than the United States.
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    Forecasting the global burden of Alzheimer's disease

    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2007
    How will the global burden of Alzheimer’s disease develop? What is the potential impact of interventions that delay disease onset or progression? This paper examines these questions using a stochastic multi-state model in conjunction with U.N. worldwide population forecasts and data from epidemiological studies on risks of Alzheimer’s disease.Key findings are that:

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