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Preface: the importance of technological solutions to the asymmetric pattern of global aging.

Publication: Human Factors
Publication Date: 22-JUN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Preface: the importance of technological solutions to the asymmetric pattern of global aging.(SPECIAL SECTION)

Article Excerpt
Aging of the human population is not uniform across the globe. In the so-called developing countries, where catastrophes and epidemics have taken a tremendous toll on the older generations, the age distribution strongly favors those of younger years. In so-called developed countries the pattern is largely inverted, such that the predominant growth is of older individuals and present young generations are fewer in comparison. This global asymmetry promises to lead to a catastrophic imbalance in which some countries will have insufficient numbers of young individuals to support the upper age group. In contrast, the developing nations will lack virtually a generation of experienced persons, who have traditionally been the repository of active knowledge.

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