The growing average age of populations is notΒ always a burden on society, it can be a rewardingΒ opportunity to enrich communities and our worldΒ as a whole. Increasingly, governments and localΒ authorities are seizing the gift of longevity to imagineΒ social infrastructure differently β and new areas ofΒ standardization are in the pipeline ready to help.
We are not getting any younger and neither is the worldΚΌs population. The number of older people has exploded in recent years and we are approaching an era where words like βaged societiesβ are becoming a reality. In fact, by 2050 it is expected that many countries will be classed as βsuper-aged societiesβ, meaning that more than 21Β % of the population is over 65; and by 2030, the number of people in the world aged 60 years and above will have grown by 56Β %).
Adapting to this trend poses economic, social and political challenges and may increase the dependency of older citizens on those of working age. This regularly conjures up doomsday scenarios of workforce shortages, the financial collapse of pension and health systems, mass loneliness and insecurity.
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