Healthy Ageing in Czechia

Tomáš Fiala () and Jitka Langhamrová ()
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Tomáš Fiala: University of Economics, Prague, Department of Demography, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics
Jitka Langhamrová: University of Economics, Prague, Department of Demography, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics

Chapter Chapter 5 in Demography of Population Health, Aging and Health Expenditures, 2020, pp 53-64 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract For populations of economically developed countries, long life has become a reality. Currently, life expectancy at birth is around 82 years for women and 76 years for men in Czechia. At the age of 65, which is the age officially considered as the old age threshold, women have on average of more than 20 years and men of more than 16 years to live. In addition, the numbers of even the most elderly are on the increase. Czechia will face an accelerated population ageing process in the next few decades (which will culminate around 2060), with continuing decline in mortality, gradual retirement of generations born in the 1970s, and low fertility. The proportion of elderly people is increasing. About one quarter of people in Czechia in 2040 will be over 65 years old, and the proportion will reach 30% in the late fifties. The proportion of persons over 80 years will grow several times until the end of this century. The quality of life during this time naturally deserves attention, and we should be asking whether we “add not only years to life but most importantly life to years”. Adding years to life is often referred to as successful ageing. It is important to talk about not only the total life length but also life quality, expressed as the period of life in good health. An important indicator of this is the Healthy Life Years (HLY) indicator. The paper investigates actual values of the HLY and total life expectancy in Czechia separately for males and females. Limitation prevalence rates will be based on The European Union’s Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey and the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS). A comparison and analysis of the differences between males and females and between healthy and total life expectancies, using the decomposition method, will be presented.

Keywords: Population ageing; Healths; Healthy life years; Czechia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44695-6_5

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