SOEP as a Source for Research on Ageing - Issues, Measures and Possibilities for Improvement
26 Pages Posted: 17 Aug 2009
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SOEP as a Source for Research on Ageing - Issues, Measures and Possibilities for Improvement
Date Written: May 2009
Abstract
Demographic change is a key consequence of the development of modern societies. The prolongation of life expectancy, shifts of mortality into later life and long-term low fertility rates cause essential changes in population structures - with an increase in the number and proportion of older people as a key feature. The changes in mortality patterns can be seen as a success of modern society. But demographic shifts imply new risks and challenges as well as opportunities for modern societies, as they affect individual life courses as well as societies as a whole.
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