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Why has ‘Active ageing’ become a global goal? Do you agree that the role of elderly care-giving is disproportionately gendered in developing countries? Why?

  • UPSC 2019
  • 20 marks
  • Population Dynamics

The World Health Organization defined active ageing in Active Ageing: A Policy Framework (2002) as optimising opportunities for health, participation and security across later life. Adopted at the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid, which produced the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA, 2002), it reframed old age from dependency to capability.…

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