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What is ‘Ageing’? Discuss the major problems of aged people in India.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 10 marks
  • Population Dynamics

Ageing is at once a biological process, a demographic fact and a socially constructed status. What counts as "old" varies across societies and periods — which is why the problems of the aged are sociological, not merely medical.

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  • Defining ageing
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