Ageing in India: Policies, Programs, Innovations and an Agenda for the future
Like other countries in the region, India has also witnessed remarkable demographic changes in the last few decades.Greying is an emerging issue, which is going to assume enhanced significance in the coming years.The older population (60 and above) increased from 7.5 percent in 2001 to 8.6 percent in 2011.Though in percentage terms the number of old persons is low, it is quite large in actual numbers, at 104 million persons aged 60 years and above, which will more than double by 2030.By 2050, one in five persons in India or approximately 340 million people will be elderly, and women will continue to outnumber men.A stark feature of ageing in India is the differentials between the States in India in terms of both the size and the percentage of old age populations, based on their differential demographic transition.In addition to their sheer large numbers, more than two-thirds of the elders living in rural areas, predominantly with widowed and dependent elderly women, ageing poses a challenge for the country to address the needs of the old age population in the country.
Venkatesh Srinivasan
Development and Public Health Professional, India
国际会议
北京
英文
205-212
2018-09-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）