The sharing economy and collaborative consumption are attracting a great deal of interest due to their business, legal and civic implications. The consequences of the spreading of practices of ...sharing in urban environments and under daily dynamics are underexplored.
This Special Issue aims to address if and how sharing shapes cities, the way that spaces are designed and lived in if social interactions are escalated, and the ways that habits and routines take place in post-individualistic society.
In particular, the following key questions are of primary interest:
Urban fabric: How is ‘sharing’ shaping cities? Does it represent a paradigm shift with tangible and physical reverberations on urban form? How are shared mobility, work, inhabiting reconfiguring the urban and social fabric?
Social practices: Are new lifestyles and practices related to sharing changing the use and design of spaces? To what extent is sharing triggering a production and consumption paradigm shift to be reflected in urban arrangements and infrastructures?
Sustainability: Does sharing increase the intensity of use of space and assets, or, rather, does it increase them to meet the expectations of convenience for urban lifestyles? To what extent are these phenomena fostering more economically-, socially-, and environmentally-sustainable practices and cities?
Policy: How can policy makers and municipalities interact with these bottom-up and phenomena and grassroots innovation to create more sustainable cities?
Scholars responded to the above questions from the fields of urban studies, urban planning and design, sociology, geography, theoretically-grounded and informed by the results of fieldwork activities.
The Anton Trstenjak Institute for Gerontology and Intergenerational Relations is named after its co-founder, academician Prof. Anton Trstenjak, Ph.D. The work of the Institute is based on a holistic ...view of the human being. In the spirit of its co-founder, the Institute researches, publishes, teaches and develops practical programmes in all the areas for which it has been founded; in addition to ageing and coexistence, it also includes psychology and logotherapy, which were in its title when it was founded, including intoxication and addictions, which have been the lifelong focus of the Institute’s co-founders. This article presents some of the outlines of Trstenjak’s life and work and their significance for the development of the Anton Trstenjak Institute up to 2022, when it celebrates its thirtieth anniversary.
OBJECTIVETo verify the modifications in auditory-perceptual and acoustic parameters of the fundamental frequency, short-term perturbation, noise, and cepstral measures of voice in young and elderly ...were distributed over the age of decades.METHODSThe study was conducted on 265 subjects (140 females and 125 males), aged 30 to 79 years, without a history of vocal complaints or dysphonia, distributed in five age groups for females and males (30-39 years until 70-79 years). Three speech therapists voice specialists performed the perceptual-auditory analysis using a 100-mm visual analog scale, based on the overall dysphonia grade (overall grade), roughness, and breathiness from the sustained vowel /a/. The smoothed cepstral peak prominence (CPPS), average fundamental frequency (F0), standard deviation of the fundamental frequency (std-F0), jitter percentage (%), shimmer percentage (%), noise-to-harmonic ratio (NHR), voice turbulence index (VTI), and soft phonation index (SPI) were extracted for the acoustic analysis RESULTS: In the case of the auditory-perceptual characteristics, the comparison between aged groups showed that, in men, the vocal quality did not show significant differences in the overall grade, roughness, and breathiness. However, women in the 3rd decade of life presented higher breathiness than those in the 5th, 6th, and 7th decades. Men had a higher overall grade and roughness than women. In the case of the acoustic data, the cepstral measure showed that in the 3rd decade, men presented higher CPPS than females. The noise measures, in the comparison by age groups, only VTI and SPI were different for women: VTI was higher in the 7th decade than in the 4th, whereas SPI was higher in the 4th decade than in older women. In the male population, the SPI in the 4th decade was also higher than that in the older population CONCLUSION: The analysis by age groups of life allowed the identification of breathiness as a sensitive parameter in the different stages of adult life in women. The CPPS analysis showed that the 7th age decade is the period of the appearance of vocal changes for females, characterized by higher CPPS. The results related to traditional short-term perturbation and noise measurements showed that changes in F0, jitter, shimmer, and NHR were not found. Among the other noise measurements, VTI and SPI demonstrated some changes in different decades of life.
This study aims to develop a standardized skin testing procedure to identify facial skin biophysical properties and impact factors of females in Taiwan by using the epidemiology investigation method ...of a cross-sectional study for facial skin quality. A total of 389 female volunteers aged 18-70 years from across Taiwan and with apparent healthy facial skin took part in the study. Seven facial skin biophysical properties were taken in a controlled environment and using a standardized protocol to ensure consistency of survey. The relationship between facial skin biophysical properties and chronological age were found to follow a linear model; as expected the properties were found to decline with age. Certain lifestyle habits known to have significant effects on facial skin aging were identified. They include body mass index, menstrual cycle, menopausal status, onset of menopause, lifetime sun exposure, hair dye usage, routine of facial cleansing, methods of daily skin care, skin color, skin type and geographical location. A Facial Skin Quality Aging Score System was developed, and it was discovered that the calculated scores significantly (p<0.0001) increased with chronological age. The facial skin surface sebum casual level exhibited a distinguishably biphasic decrease (p<0.0018), with a sharp drop between the chronological age groups of 35-39 and 40-44. In conclusion, our study demonstrated that a standardized Facial Skin Quality Aging Score System could be used for producing a global systematic reference for human skin quality aging. A standardized facial skin testing center, testing procedure and prediction index of skin quality aging for the Taiwanese population are important concerns. The results of this study could be helpful to the consideration of proper measures for dermatology and cosmetic products.
HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ELDERLY Pavel Poredoš
Zdravniški vestnik (Ljubljana, Slovenia : 1992),
10/2004, Letnik:
73, Številka:
10
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Slovenian population is getting older, similarly to the ones in a developed world. Population aging leads to changes in society, social and economic relations. With aging, there is a greater need for ...health insurance. In old age, chronic diseases amount and that worsens an organism functional state and consequences are predominantly permanent. By decrease of mental and physical abilities, a dependency is increasing and thus a quality of life is lowered. Physical limitations are most frequently caused by movement problems found in the elderly. The quality of aging is made worse also by vision and hearing disorders and psychological changes. In health treatment of elderly, clinicians should not strive only to prolong their lives but also to improve a quality of aging. If we want to ensure a quality aging, we need to focus our activities on prevention of chronic diseases and improving the physical and psychological rehabilitation of the elderly after treatment and thus enable them to return to normal functioning, to preserve their independency and mobility till each individual’s late age. Geriatric medicine has its peculiarities which means that clinicians need to possess special skills which are nowadays rare in Slovenia. Instead of introducing special institutions for the elderly we need to improve our knowledge of disease characteristics in old age and special needs of the old population.
Međugeneracijska integracija je idealan oblik ostvarivanja međugeneracijske solidarnosti, koja ima veliku važnost i danas, kao i uvijek, zbog sve većeg porasta starije populacije. Malo je stvari koje ...doprinose činjenici da starije osobe mogu doživljavati svoj život kao nešto vrijedno, kao i činjenicu da je mlađa generacija ozbiljno koristi svoja životna iskustva i sluša starije. Mladi ljudi koji se druže s drugim generacijama imaju pozitivniji pogled na starenje i stjeću uzor za vlastitu starost. Studija je utvrdila utjecaj stare generacije na mlađe, a naglašava se svjestan napor za očuvanje i jačanje međugeneracijskih odnosa, kao potrebe koja mora biti zadovoljena za postizanje kvalitetnog starenja.
