The relationship between dementia prevalence of the female elderly, personal exercise habits and distribution of exercise spaces in Tainan City, Taiwan
| dc.contributor.author | Chao, T.Y. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chou, Yun | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-21T07:48:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-21T07:48:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | With advances in medical technology, the average human life expectancy extends and the global population is aging. Accordingly, the number of people with dementia is steadily increasing. Alzheimer’s Disease International released the World Alzheimer Report in August 2015 and updated the data on dementia's global prevalence. There are an estimated 46.8 million people worldwide living with dementia in 2015. This number will reach 74.7 million in 2030 and 131.5 million in 2050. Due to the average life expectancy of female is longer than male, female people comprise a significant majority of the elderly population (United Nations, 2015). Moreover, the prevalence is higher for women than for men. (Alzheimer’s Disease International, 2015). Hence, female elderly have become a high-risk group with dementia in the foreseeable future. The estimated prevalence of dementia in people aged 60 or over is 4.7% in Asian, 5.9% in Europe, 6.4 in the America and 4.6% in Africa (Alzheimer’s Disease International, 2015). In Taiwan, the prevalence of dementia in people aged 65 or over is 4.97% (Taiwan Alzheimer's Disease Association, 2012). Although the number in Taiwan is not particularly higher than other region around the world, the increase of proportion in the number of elderly people living with dementia (2015-2030 and 2015-2050) will be higher in Taiwan than in most of other countries. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 950-953 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2092 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | The relationship between dementia prevalence of the female elderly, personal exercise habits and distribution of exercise spaces in Tainan City, Taiwan | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |