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Psychogeriatric Activity in Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Sergio Luís Blay
Sergio Luís Blay
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil
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Extract

Aging has now become a universal phenomenon of increasing importance both in developed and developing countries. Brazil is a huge country with more than 120 million inhabitants. Those in the 60-year-old-and-over age group represent, according to the latest census (1980), 6.5% of the population (Anuário Estatístico do Brasil, 1986, 1987). Since 1900 the percentage of persons 60 years and older has doubled (3.2% in 1900 to 6.5% in 1980) and nominally has increased 13 times (from 0.6 million to 7.7 million) (Anuário Estatístico do Brasil, 1986, 1987). A child born in 1980 can expect to live 63.5 years, about 18.6 years longer than a child born in 1940 (Fundação IBGE, 1984). The major part of this increase occurred due to lower mortality rates for young adults and children.

Type
International Psychogeriatric Developments
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 107 - 111
Copyright
© 1989 Springer Publishing Company

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