Elderly healthcare calls for attention and innovation
Elderly healthcare calls for attention and innovation
- Unhealthy ageing is the result of cumulative inequities and behavioural indiscretions experienced over life. Heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases become major causes of death and disability across midlife and older years. Mental illness poses a major threat to the quality of life as Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, depression and a variety of other neuropsychiatric disorders affect the elderly.
- Unhealthy ageing is the result of cumulative inequities and behavioural indiscretions experienced over life. Heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases become major causes of death and disability across midlife and older years. Mental illness poses a major threat to the quality of life as Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, depression and a variety of other neuropsychiatric disorders affect the elderly.