Future of an Ageing Population

Morbidity rate
Multi-morbidity
Non-accredited
training
Oldest old
Owner occupier
Personalised
medicine
Prevalence
Productivity
Reconstituted
families
Resilience
Self-efficacy
Smart home
Social care
Social rental
housing
Specialised housing
Number of deaths in a particular population over a given
time period (usually per thousand people per year).
Several chronic health conditions.
Training that does not lead to a qualification.
Those aged 80 and over.
Accommodation that is lived in by the person who
owns it outright (or is paying for it with a mortgage).
Medicine that uses an individual’s genetic profile
and environment to guide decisions made about the
prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease.
The proportion of a population found to have
a particular condition.
An economic measure of output per unit input.
Families headed by two parents with children from
a previous relationship.
An individual’s successful adaptation and functioning
in the face of stress or trauma. Psychological
resilience is that feature of a personality that allows
an individual to bounce back from adversity.
One’s belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific
goals or accomplish a task.
A dwelling incorporating a communications network
that connects the key electrical appliances and
services, and allows them to be remotely controlled,
monitored or accessed.
A range of services to help people maintain their
health and independence in the community including
home and personal care, day services, respite care
and residential and/or nursing care.
Housing owned by local authorities and private
registered providers, for which guideline target rents
are determined through the national rent regime.
A group of dwellings intended for older people and
served by a resident or non-resident warden/scheme
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