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UN:
ASIAN NATIONS CONFER ON IMPACT OF POPULATION
AGEING AT UN-BACKED FORUM: 26/7/2007
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July 2007 – A
United Nations-backed meeting – attended by participants from over a dozen
countries in the Asia-Pacific region – on the social, health and economic
consequences of population ageing kicked off yesterday in Bangkok, Thailand.
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The
two-day seminar
is being held by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific (UNESCAP),
in collaboration with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)
and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
Population
ageing, due to declining fertility and increasing longevity, has
increasingly come to pose a challenge to the Asia-Pacific region, with the
number of older persons in the area to grow rapidly, surging from 410
million in 2007 to 733 million in 2025 to an expected 1.3 billion in 2050.
Older
persons, who currently comprise 10 per cent of the total population, will
constitute over 15 per cent of the population in 2025 and nearly 25 per cent
in 2050. Such shifts in proportions will have tremendous social and economic
impacts on income security, social welfare and medical services.
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Adding
to those challenges are other demographic changes reshaping family life in the
Asia-Pacific area. There will be fewer caregivers to attend to older people’s
needs since the number of younger people is declining and the number of working
women is increasing. Also, migration to urban areas is leaving many older
persons behind in rural areas.
Participants
– both experts and Government representatives – at the UN forum will confer
on the causes and socio-economic and health consequences of population ageing,
focusing on changing family structures and their impact on the provision of care
and support for older persons. The region’s existing programmes and policies
will be discussed, as well as recommendations for bolstering national programmes.
The
outcomes from the seminar will be discussed at a high-level review meeting on
the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, scheduled to be held in
Macao, China, this October.
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