The welfare of the elderly becomes one of the emerging problems in Asia, whose baby boomers are about to become the elderly. Few studies, however, have addressed their "potential Need" for social welfare that is expected to rapidly rise soon after retirement. The potential need of these...

The article is deal with the spatial differences of the demographic events between European Union regions. We are research spatial diferencies of ageing process between 272 NUTS 2 regions today. The analyses on this spatial level are working with the creation of cartogram method for processing...

The low level of health literacy skills often found in elderly people has been associated with a significant risk of poor access to health services and poor health status and makes it more likely that they will be prevented from obtaining and understanding the basic health information and...

The purpose of this study is to explore media repertoires emerging from Japanese old media users and factors which can explain the use of different media repertoires to understand a new digital divide called "gray divide," the inequality in the access to and use of ICT within senior citizen...

This article examines the theoretical framework for accessibility, social exclusion and provision of public transport. The socio-economic and urban characteristics of Latin American cities require the creation of specific indices to determine social needs for public transport. In the article an...

One of the targets of Europe's growth strategy (Europe 2020) is "reduction of poverty by aiming to lift at least 20 million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion". Since poverty is a multidimensional concept, EUROSTAT proposes three indicators to calculate it: people at...

Many scholars, since the early 2000s, advocate for the integration of institutionalist and communitarian views of social capital generation in order to explain civil society dynamics, in particular in countries ? such as former communist states - characterized by transitional processes, with a...

This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses microdata from the four available waves of the...