Personas mayores en Chile: el nuevo desafío social, económico y sanitario del Siglo XXI

• Ana María Leiva ; Claudia Troncoso-Pantoja ; María Adela Martínez-Sanguinetti ; Gabriela Nazar ; Yeny Concha-Cisternas ; Miquel Martorell ; Karina Ramírez-Alarcón ; Fanny Petermann-Rocha ; Igor Cigarroa ; Ximena Díaz ; Carlos Celis-Morales ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Austral de Chile

     Universidad Austral de Chile

     Valdivia, Chile

     
• Localización: Revista Médica de Chile, ISSN-e 0034-9887, Vol. 148, Nº. 6, 2020, págs. 799-809
• Idioma: español
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  • Older people in Chile: the new social, economic and health challenge for the 21st century
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  • Ageing will be one of the most significant social transformations of the 21st century worldwide. In the last 40 years, Chile has tripled its older adult population. As a result, by 2050 the country will have the highest proportion of older adults in Latin America. This remarkable growth reinforces the need to identify their current situation and to revise what is the society doing to maintain older people as active members. In this context, this narrative revision aimed to describe the sociodemographic, epidemiologic and sociocultural profile of the older Chilean adults. Besides, programs and public policies focused on the improvement of their quality of life were identified.