Future of an Ageing Population

Future of an Ageing Population | Glossary
manager with specific responsibility for the group.
State pension age
(SPA)
Stratified medicine
Technology
readiness
Telecare
Telemedicine
Telemonitoring
Total fertility rate
Unpaid care
The earliest age at which an individual can claim their
State Pension.
Medicine in which tools are used to stratify cohorts of
patients by subclass of disease or the likelihood
of responding to a particular therapy, intervention,
or disease management strategy.
People’s propensity to embrace and use new
technologies for accomplishing goals in home life
and at work.
Remote care, usually using a network of sensors
throughout a property to react to untoward events
and raise an alarm automatically.
Use of electronic communication and information
technologies to provide or support clinical care at
a distance.
The use of information technology to monitor
patients at a distance.
The average number of live births per woman a group
of women would have by age 50 if they were subject
to the age-specific fertility observed in the population
in a given year.
Provision of unpaid support needed because of age,
physical or learning disability, or illness.
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