More than 90% of the elderly population is now covered by health insurance, but out-of-pocket costs remain high.
With an increasing elderly population in many countries, more people will be at risk of age-related visual impairment.
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But it said local authorities faced a massive cash shortfall because of reduced government funding and an increasing elderly population.
The workforce is shrinking while its elderly population is expected to explode.
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The elderly population is expected to swell by 200 million in the next decade to surpass one billion, and reach two billion by 2050.
With its struggling economy and sizeable elderly population, social welfare programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are top of mind to Florida voters.
The side effects of that will be increased cost of an already outrageous price of private insurance because the elderly population is more likely to become ill of course.
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Social services for adults are being "remodelled" as the council deals with a rising elderly population, with estimates that by 2032 25% of the population will be over 65.
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With an elderly population in need of nursing care projected to reach a staggering 5.69 million by 2015, Japan faces an urgent need for new approaches to assist care-giving personnel.
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Our national demographics, coupled with indisputable glaringly insufficient retirement savings and human physiology, suggest that a catastrophic outcome for at least a significant percentage of our elderly population is inevitable.
Well, last May we saw well that idea went down with the public and we are now hitting a crisis point as the elderly population want to hang up their hats and enjoy their retirement.
Mr Legg, speaking at the start of National Eye Health Week, said that a 62% increase in the elderly population by 2031 meant it was important that provision was made now to cover the cost.
Yes, the elderly population has been growing.
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Nanto City, a centrally located Japanese city with an elderly population that comprises 26% of its total residents, is one of the first municipalities in the world to experiment with using robots to help care for the elderly.
Defenders of the status quo argue that it is impractical to limit the growth of spending because of entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security, for which spending is steadily rising due to the increase in the elderly population.
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There are, I am told, around 30 to 35 care homes that Southern Cross would have wanted to close in any circumstances either because they are too small, older and not quite fit for purpose or because they are in areas where the elderly population is shrinking.
But as drug prices in America have climbed and fewer people are covered by health insurance (18.4% of the non-elderly population had no insurance in 1998, up from 14.8% ten years earlier) patients have become aware that Canada and Mexico can sometimes provide the same drugs at half the price.
It has yet to mean as much for the ill-educated, elderly and rural population.
Once again we read about the disgraceful care of our elderly and frail population and once again I cringe with embarrassment as I read how we abuse the people who we have the privilege to care for.
Whatever the benefits, there's no getting away from the fact that human embryonic material has become a research tool for the pharmaceutical industry - that the moral status of the embryo has been lowered for the sake of medical advance, profits, and extending the lives of an increasingly elderly rich western population.
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That's probably because stronger immigration into England is constraining the growth in the population share of elderly people.
Our population of impoverished elderly is on the verge of exploding.
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If it developed an indigenous population, looking after that population its elderly, its unemployed, and so on would be a new expenditure, probably for the department of international development, which deals with such issues on St Helena.
Among them are the elderly, a growing share of the population, who want easy access to transport, doctors, hospitals, cinemas and above all family and friends.
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It means our putative 24-year-old faces a future of a small working population supporting a large number of elderly people.
Baldwin's clients include the expanding homeless population, day laborers, the elderly and other poor people in the area.
Mr. BOBBY BOBO: Our population is becoming more and more elderly, and as you become older you have vision issues, and people want to be able to lead a normal life.
The elderly around a third of Osage Hills' population will benefit from living in a fully fenced-in compound that has guards at the gates.
Technology for the elderly is a key concern for Japan's ageing population.
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