Essays about: "Ageing Population"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 108 essays containing the words Ageing Population.

1. 31. Meal Delivery Service to Chinese Elderly

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)

   Author : Huiwen Zheng; [2020]
   Keywords : Human needs; Service design thinking; Product design; Design for ageing; Anthropology; Sustainability; Human-centred methods; Humanity design;

   Abstract : The main purpose of this report is to document a design process towards the product development of meal delivery service to ageing population in China. The designer has spent six months working with the analysis of the background and doing the design research in two countries, China and Sweden. READ MORE

3. 32. How might we decrease the amount of information lost between and during night shifts through implementing a digital alarm register?

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Julia Brandt; [2020]
   Keywords : Home care; Interaction design; gui; CSCW; eHealth; Mobile work; application; UCD;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the digital opportunities at a mobile workplace in elderly home care by analyzing the existing information and communication flow that happens between and during shifts in everyday practice using a user-centric approach. The fieldwork analysis reveals that a combination of media, both verbal, digital and paper-based is used throughout the shift to pick up and pass on information. READ MORE

4. 33. Dichotomies of Utility : Experiences of Refugee Reception and Demographic Challenges in Rural Sweden

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Axel Andersson; [2020]
   Keywords : political economy; integration; demographics; refugee reception; macroeconomics; citizenship; welfare; rural municipalities; Modern Monetary Theory;

   Abstract : In the years immediately following the so-called “refugee crisis”, Swedish municipalities that had received many refugees improved their financial position in a quite remarkable way. Overall, 2016 might have been the best financial year ever for the municipal sector. READ MORE

5. 34. Governing a Greying East Asia - Fertility Decline and Policy Response: A Case Study of Japan and South Korea

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Isabella Ronca; [2020]
   Keywords : population ageing; fertility decline; second demographic transition theory; work-family conflict; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Over the past few decades, Japan and South Korea have experienced unprecedented levels of population ageing brought about by the countries’ persistent sub-replacement fertility rates. This fertility decline has to be addressed in order to ensure future social stability and economic growth. READ MORE

6. 35. The Popular Response to the Ageing Crisis: A Time-Series Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Effects of Demographic Ageing on Individuals’ Support for Welfare State Policy in 13 Advanced Democracies (1996-2016)

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Oskar Pettersson; [2020]
   Keywords : demographic ageing; dependency ratio; welfare state attitudes; spending preferences; social investment; TSCS; pseudo-panel; cross-level interaction; intergenerational cleavages;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the relationship between demographic ageing, as captured by temporal, within-country variation in the ratio of elderly to the working-age population – the dependency ratio – on citizens’ support for the welfare state. The research problem is vitally relevant considering the worsening demographic structure of advanced democracies, a process that is having considerable ramifications on the possibilities of financing comprehensive welfare states. READ MORE