2024年10月1日 · Older people are often assumed to be frail or dependent and a burden to society. Public health professionals, and society as a whole, need to address these and other ageist attitudes, which can lead to discrimination, affect the way policies are developed and the opportunities older people have to experience healthy aging.

2024年9月12日 · New 2023 metro area population estimates by age show increases in older adults in almost all metro areas, with decreases in young people in many metro areas. America Counts Story Majority of Older Adults in Poverty in 2021 Lived Alone

2024年9月24日 · The number and proportion of people aged 60 years and older in the population is increasing. In 2019, the number of people aged 60 years and older was 1 billion. This number will increase to 1.4 billion by 2030 and 2.1 billion by 2050.

2023年10月20日 · One in six older adults experience abuse, often by their own carers (4). Abuse of older adults has serious consequences and can lead to depression and anxiety. Many older people are carers of spouses with chronic health conditions, such as dementia. The responsibilities of such care can be overwhelming and can affect the carer’s mental health.

Older people are a valuable resource for any society. Ageing is a natural phenomenon with opportunities and challenges. According to Census 2011, India has 104 million older people (60+years), constituting 8.6% of total population. Amongst the …

2015年10月30日 · In fact, older people make many contributions to their families and societies. Research in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2011 estimated that, the contributions older people made through taxation, consumer spending and other economically valuable activities were worth nearly GBP 40 billion more than expenditure on ...

2024年5月31日 · Millions of older people around the globe experience human rights violations every year, ranging from age-based discrimination and social and political exclusion, to abuses in nursing facilities ...

2024年10月1日 · Only around 1 in 4 reporting countries have enough financial and political resources to implement integrated care responsive to older people’s needs, and only 1 in 3 have the same for long-term care. Only 16% of low-income countries, which heavily rely on unpaid informal care, have a training programme for informal caregivers of older people.

2024年6月25日 · This indicates that while Social Security helps lift a large number of people age 65 and over out of poverty, many Social Security recipients remain poor. However, a larger share of older adults in poverty lived in households that received Supplemental Security Income (SSI) compared to the share of older adults not living in poverty.

The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030) is an opportunity to bring together governments, civil society, international agencies, professionals, academia, the media, and the private sector for ten years of concerted, catalytic and collaborative action to improve the lives of older people, their families, and the communities in which they live.