Science and Technology - First Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
CHAPTER 1: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 2: BACKGROUND: DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE
Life expectancy in the United Kingdom
Table 1: Expectation of life at birth
and selected age
Table 2: Life Expectancy by Local Authority,
2001-03
Inequalities between social classes
Box 1: Definition of Social Class
Differences between ethnic groups
Table 3: Age Distribution by Ethnic Group,
2001
Figure 1: Age Distribution by Ethnic Group,
2001-02
International comparisons
Healthy Life Expectancy
Box 2: Methods of Estimating Healthy
Life Expectancy
Figure 2: Life Expectancy and Healthy Life
Expectancy
Other factors affecting quality of life
The Need for Longitudinal Studies of Ageing
CHAPTER 3: UNDERSTANDING THE AGEING PROCESS
The Ageing Process
Figure 3: Changes in Mortality Rates
Our Seminar
Implications of the scientific understanding
of ageing
Factors that promote good health and slow
the ageing process
Nutrition
Absence of risk factors: smoking, and drinking
to excess
Having a social role and function
General well-being
Variability and diversity
Individuality of the ageing process
Box 3: Variations in Physical Impairment
Distinctions in the ageing process between
the sexes
Distinctions between social groups
Distinctions between ethnic groups
Table 4: Medical Problems of Black and Minority
Ethnic Elders
The relationship between ageing and disease
CHAPTER 4: AGE-RELATED DISEASES AND DISORDERS
Conditions affecting older people
Figure 4: Major Causes of Death by Age
Figure 5: Increases in Longstanding Conditions
Figure 6: Incidence of Specific Conditions
Stroke
Heart
Cancer
The musculoskeletal system
Parkinson's Disease
Dementia
Diabetes
Sensory impairments
Hearing
Touch
The cost of sensory impairment
Oral deterioration
Conclusion
CHAPTER 5: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE
AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
The built environment
Table 5: Excess winter mortality as %
increase over non-winter deaths
Lifetime homes
Older drivers
Mobility and public transport
Communication
Assistive technology
CHAPTER 6: INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE: THE
MISSED OPPORTUNITY
CHAPTER 7: MANAGING HEALTH FOR OLD AGE
The National Service Framework for Older
People
Box 4: NSF for Older People: Standards
Box 5: Milestones for Standard Four of the
NSF for Older People
The importance of joined-up government
Cost-effectiveness
Clinical records
Clinical trials
Longitudinal Studies of Ageing
The Cognitive Functions and Ageing Study
(CFAS)
The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
(ELSA)
The funding problem
CHAPTER 8: STRATEGIC DIRECTION AND CO-ORDINATION
OF RESEARCH
The learned societies
Researchers
Funding of research: government departments
Funding of research: the research councils
Table 6: Research Council Spend on Ageing
Research
Funding of research: the European Union
Funding of research: the private sector
Coordination and collaboration: the current
position in the United Kingdom
Coordination of research in the United States
Box 6: Funding of Research in the United
Kingdom and the United States
Coordination and collaboration: the future
for the United Kingdom
CHAPTER 9: SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
The devolved administrations
Demographic change
Promoting good health: physical activity
Nutrition
Individuality of the ageing process
Age-related diseases
Age-related disorders
The built environment
Transport
Communication
Assistive technology
Industry and commerce: the missed opportunity
The National Service Framework
Cost effectiveness
Clinical records
Clinical trials
Longitudinal studies
Researchers
Funding of research: the research councils
Funding of research: the European Union
Coordination of research
APPENDIX 1: Members and Declarations
APPENDIX 2: List of Witnesses
APPENDIX 3: Call for evidence
APPENDIX 4: Note of the Seminar
APPENDIX 5: Note of the visit to Washington
DC
APPENDIX 6: Abbreviations and Acronyms
used in this Report
NOTE:
The Report of the Committee is published in Volume I, HL Paper
No 20-I. The Evidence of the Committee is published in Volume
II, HL Paper
No 20-II.
Reference in the text of the Report as follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 20-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 20-II)
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