Chen Cynthia, Lim Julian, Koh Jemima, Beard John, Rowe John W
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Nat Aging. 2025 Jan;5(1):113-121. doi: 10.1038/s43587-024-00772-3. Epub 2024 Dec 27.
We have previously presented a multidimensional Aging Society Index, a weighted summation of five domains central to successful adaptation to societal aging: well-being, productivity and engagement, equity, cohesion and security, as a tool to assess countries' adaptation to demographic transformation. As the index was based on data from developed countries and some of the individual metrics or weightings may not be well suited for application to low- and middle-income countries, we here present the scores on a modified index (Global Aging Society Index) on 143 countries distributed across the span of economic development. Only 5 out of 143 (3.5%) countries had higher scores for women than men. Countries with the most notable gender differences were primarily low-income countries. The multidimensional index permits cross-national comparisons and may facilitate the identification of targets for developing policies and programs to enhance the likelihood that older persons will age successfully.
我们之前提出了一个多维老龄化社会指数，它是成功适应社会老龄化的五个核心领域的加权总和：福祉、生产力与参与度、公平性、凝聚力与安全性，作为评估各国对人口结构转变适应情况的一种工具。由于该指数基于发达国家的数据，且一些个别指标或权重可能不太适合应用于低收入和中等收入国家，我们在此呈现143个分布在不同经济发展阶段国家的改良指数（全球老龄化社会指数）得分。143个国家中只有5个（3.5%）国家女性得分高于男性。性别差异最为显著的国家主要是低收入国家。这个多维指数允许进行跨国比较，并可能有助于确定制定政策和计划的目标，以提高老年人成功老龄化的可能性。
