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ArticleScientific reports2023

Ageing in Saudi Arabia: new dimensions and intervention strategies.

Asharaf Abdul Salam

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Asharaf Abdul SalamKing Saud University Center for Population Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. asalam@ksu.edu.sa.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ageing process of population passing through demographic dividend in many of the Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, where the demographic transition process entered a progressive stage. This process has been accelerated with rapid reductions in fertility caused by various changes in the socio-economic and life style dimensions. Researches on population ageing in the country are rare and thus this analytic research aims at exploring population ageing trends at the backdrop of demographic transition to help build up demanded strategies and policies. This analysis explains a rapid native population ageing especially on absolute size: an increase in line with theoretical demographic transition process. Consequently, structural changes in age distribution accompanied a change in age pyramid from an expansive shape of the late 1990s to a constrictive shape in 2010 and further shrinking by 2016. Obviously, various age related indices-age dependency, index of ageing, and median age-exemplify this trend. Still, the old aged population remain static in terms of percentages or indices, exemplifying that the movement of age cohorts continue in the early ages shall reach old age, soon, in this decade: hence, characterizes retirement boom and multiple pathologies compressed to last years of life. Thus, this is an ideal time to prepare for challenges of ageing, learning from the experiences of nations confronted with similar demographic trends. Old aged population deserves care, concern and compassion to 'add life to years' with dignity and independence. Informal care mechanisms, especially families, play a vital role on this behalf, and so, deserve to be strengthened and empowered through welfare measures, rather than turning to improving formal care system.

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AgingAgedAge DistributionDemographyHumansMiddle AgedPopulation DynamicsSaudi Arabia

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PMID36899041
PMCPMC10006203

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