Sökning: "Active ageing"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 61 avhandlingar innehållade orden Active ageing.
1. Avoiding ageing : Surface degradation of commercial electrode materials in lithium-ion batteries
Sammanfattning : The battery market today expands rapidly, not least for electric vehicles. But to compete against the combustion engine, the cost of batteries must be reduced. After years of usage, the batteries degrade and need to be exchanged, increasing the cost over the vehicle lifecycle. LÄS MER
2. Active and healthy ageing in Europe : significance of social relationships
Sammanfattning : Background: Social relationships have important roles in achieving active and healthy ageing. Social relationships are dynamic across the life course. A myriad of contextual and individual (e.g. LÄS MER
3. Ageing well : mobile ICT as a tool for empowerment of elderly people in home health care and rehabilitation
Sammanfattning : The ageing of Europe's population is a crucial challenge for the 21st century. Today, the mean life expectancy in Sweden is 83 years for women and 78 for men. Ageing well is a frequently used process, describing the objectives of future elderly care and rehabilitation. LÄS MER
4. Active Ageing a Path towards Ageing Well. Physical Functioning, Physical Activity, Falls Self-Efficacy and Social Participation in Community-Dwelling Elderly
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to study factors of importance for active ageing with a focus on physical functioning, physical activity, falls self-efficacy, health-related quality of life and social participation in community-dwelling elderly above 60 years old. Methods: Study I (n=108) evaluated the psychometric properties of the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (Arabic version) (FES-I (Ar)) using validity and reliability testing. LÄS MER
5. To work or not to work in an extended working life? Factors in working and retirement decisions
Sammanfattning : In most of the industrialised world, the proportion of older and retired people in the population is continuously increasing. This will have budgetary implications for maintaining the welfare state, because the active working section of the population must fund the non-active and old population. LÄS MER