title: [Changes in ageing towards a dynamic elderly society].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Longer healthy life expectancy and the ageing of new generations result in rapid changes of life-styles and behaviors of the elderly.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  How far are trends to active ageing countervailing factors to processes of demographic ageing?
  
  
  METHODS
  Official statistics and survey data are analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Increased individualism particularly among healthy retired men and women result in more active attitudes to ageing processes. At least in affluent regions significant cohort changes in ageing are also observed among men and women aged 80 and older. These changes affect future medical treatments of elderly patients.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Gerontologie, Universität Zürich, Glärnischstraße 47, CH-8810, Horgen, Schweiz. hoepflinger@bluemail.ch.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Höpflinger
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy / Q000639:trends*; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Aging, demographic; Fourth age; Geriatrics; Life expectancy; Third age