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Baby boomers: fit for the future
— annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2015 on the state of the public's health | | Author(s) | Sally C Davies |
| Corporate Author | Department of Health - DH |
| Publisher | Department of Health, London, 2016 |
| Pages | 154 pp |
| Source | Download: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attac... |
| Keywords | Middle aged ; Young elderly ; Health [elderly]. |
| Annotation | The Chief Medical Officer's annual report on the state of the public's health considers the health of the 'baby boomer' generation (currently aged 50-70 and born between 1945 and 1964). Topics considered include the impact of lifestyle choices on current and future health, employment, physical and mental health, sexual health, and screening and immunisation programmes. In Chapter 2 on demography, Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham note that West Somerset has the highest percentage of this age group (32.5%) and Tower Hamlets the lowest (11.6%); they also examine living arrangements, changes in the family and implications for future social support, social network, and use of technology. In Chapter 3, on health and employment, Richard Heron, Stephen Bevan and Justin Varney consider "a lack of data and evidence to reliably tailor and adapt work for workers over 50 years of age, to maximise their longevity in the workplace and potential productivity to employers". That work is good for you is balanced against problems with ill health. Elsewhere in the report is the observation that physical activity levels are low on average in the baby-boomer generation, and fall far below the levels recommended in national guidelines, such that obesity and the emergence of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, arthritis, hypertension and cardiovascular disease, are of concern. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-161209002 E |
| Classmark | SE: BBA: CC |
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