RT Journal Article
T1 Dependency ratios in healthy ageing
A1 Wachs, Diego
A1 Román-Urrestarazu, Andrés
A1 Brayne, Carol
A1 Onrubia Fernández, Jorge
AB Although people are living longer, there is no discernible pattern about the quality of life in an increasing lifespan. This restricts our capacity to predict and prepare for the consequences of population ageing. Accordingly, we propose a population ageing indicator that combines demographic and disability prevalence data through a characteristics approach and explore different scenarios to account for uncertainty in life quality projections. Our results, available for 186 countries, show that countries that rank older under conventional chronological ageing measures may rank younger under our qualitative measure. Additionally, we find substantial differences in our projections depending on different health assumptions, demonstrating the risk of using ageing indicators that make implicit assumptions about health characteristics.
PB BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
SN 2059-7908
YR 2020
FD 2020-04-20
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/131085
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/131085
LA eng
NO Wachs D, Roman-Urrestarazu A, Brayne C, Onrubia-Fernández J. Dependency ratios in healthy ageing. BMJ Global Health. 2020;5:e002117. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002117
NO Materiales suplementarios acceso online: https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/4/e002117#supplementary-materials
NO Fundación MAPFRE
NO Gillings Fellowship in Global Public Health and Autism Research
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 22 may 2026