[
    {
        "id": "osp-11296",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Emerging Burden of Frail Young and Elderly Persons in Oman: For whom the bell tolls?",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Al Sinawi",
                "given": "Hamed"
            },
            {
                "family": "Al-Alawi",
                "given": "Mohammed"
            },
            {
                "family": "Al-Harrasi",
                "given": "Rehab"
            },
            {
                "family": "Ahmed",
                "given": ""
            },
            {
                "family": "Al-Shafaee",
                "given": "Mohammed"
            },
            {
                "family": "Al-Adawi",
                "given": "Samir"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/ar/articles/emerging-burden-of-frail-young-and-elderly-persons-in-oman-for-whom-the-bell-tolls",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2025
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal",
        "volume": "12",
        "issue": "2",
        "page": "169-176",
        "DOI": "10.18295/2075-0528.1360",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2075-051X",
        "abstract": "Recent improvements in health and an increased standard of living in Oman have led to a reduction in environment-related and infectious diseases. Now the country is experiencing an epidemiological transition characterised by a baby boom, youth bulge and increasing longevity. Common wisdom would therefore suggest that Omanis will suffer less ill health. However, a survey of literature suggests that chronic non-communicable diseases are unexpectedly becoming common. This is possibly fuelled by some socio-cultural patterns specific to Oman, as well as the shortcomings of the ‘miracle’ of health and rapid modernisation. Unfortunately, such new diseases do not spare younger people; a proportion of them will need the type of care usually reserved for the elderly. In addition, due to their pervasive and refractory nature, these chronic non-communicable diseases seem impervious to the prevailing ‘cure-oriented’ health care system. This situation therefore calls for a paradigm shift: a health care system that goes beyond a traditional cure-orientation to provide care services for the chronically sick of all ages."
    }
]