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“I have never experienced any problem with my health. So far, it hasn’t been harmful”: older Greek-Australian smokers’ views on smoking: a qualitative study.

Smoking tobacco products is one of the largest preventable health risk factors for older people.Greek-Australians have the highest prevalence of cigarette use in Australia for older people, but there is a lack of knowledge about Greek-Australian’s perspectives on smoking cessation.

SOPRANO – An extendable, open AAL platform for older people based on semantical contracts

Several initiatives have shown the potentials of applying AAI techniques to ambient intelligence in general and ambient assisted living in particular. While these systems succeed in adding “intelligence” to systems, they do not provide for the expansion and openness of

Time Trends in demographic indices in the Greek population

Demographic population ageing constitutes a world-wide social phenomenon which is strongly evident particularly in the economically developed and industrial countries. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore trends in demographic indices over time in the Greek population

Emotion Recognition in the Wild: Results and Limitations from Active and Healthy Ageing cases in a Living Lab

The work presented in this paper relies on the recognition of emotions during pilot trials with elderly people in an ecologically valid living lab. The emotion recognition is processed by cloud based service and the photos for processing are captured

Seeking the Secrets of Longevity

Ιt is now evident from various socio-demographic studies that a greater portion of the population survives into old age, above the seventh decade of life. Projections for Europe estimate that in 1995 13.3% of the population was over the age

Dementia and Older adults: Synchronous study in urban and semi-urban population

In Greece, given the demographic aging of the population, cognitive disturbances amongst older people, such as vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, are a major public health problem, with the total cost of direct and indirect patient care amounting to 6

Informal Care Provision in Europe: Regulation and Profile of Providers.

This report investigates regulations for the provision of informal care in 21 member states of the European Union. We focus on the comparison of public support for informal care, and compare in detail the monetary benefits that can be used

AGEING IN GREECE AND CURRENT POLICY TRENDS

In a society where the ageing population continues to increase, as in Greece, it is necessary to improve care for the elderly, given that today old people are an important part of the population.

Ageing in the Crisis: Experiences from Greece

A collection of Greek scientific authors’ articles on the effects of the crisis on Greek older people. The authors are multidisciplinary from economics, social policy, health and family research and civil society.

Arterial ageing: Major nutritional and life-style effects.

There are several important nutritional and life-style parameters that have a great impact on arterial ageing that, in turn, may lead to the development and progression of cardiovascular and other diseases. Two of the most important life-style parameters with detrimental