Search for dissertations about: "social factors causing old age problems"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words social factors causing old age problems.

  2. 1. The relationship between social support, personality and depression in the general population : Focusing on older people

    Author : Siv Grav; Ove Hellzen; Eystein Stordal; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : Depression; home nursing care; older people; personality; Depresjon; eldre; hjemmesykepleie; personlighet; sosial;

    Abstract : Today's wide variety of diseases and health problems areinfluenced in part by an aging population and by environmental andlifestyle changes. Depression is one of the most quickly growingdisorders, causing a huge decrease in quality of life. Depression alsoincreases with age. READ MORE

  4. 2. Hearing in menopausal women and in women with Turner syndrome : a model for hearing matured in an estrogen-deficient environment

    Author : Christina Forshell Hederstierna; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Epidemiological studies have shown that women have better high-frequency hearing than men in virtually all age groups, regardless of noise-exposure, and that agerelated hearing decline starts after age 30 in men but not until after the age of 50 in women. This coincides with the menopausal transition in most women, thus leading us to hypothesize that the menopause triggers auditory deterioration. READ MORE