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Ageing
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The rapid growth of the world's ageing population requires strategies to ensure that this issue is adequately addressed by the regular programmes of United Nations organizations and bodies.
The First World Assembly on Ageing in Vienna in 1982 adopted an International Plan of Action on Ageing. The Commission for Social Development (CSD) reviews the implementation of the Plan of Action.
In 1991 the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Principles for Older Persons. They address the independence, participation, care, self-fulfillment and dignity of older persons.
In 1995, at the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen a
Programme of Action was adopted based on the promotion and protection of all human rights in society and the participation of all people, including disadvantaged and vulnerable groups and persons. In 1999 the United Nations International Year of Older Persons was proclaimed.
The Second World Assembly on Ageing was held in Madrid on the 20th anniversary of the Vienna Assembly.
The resulting document, the Madrid International Plan of Ageing 2002 calls for changes in attitudes towards and policies concerning the enormous implications of ageing.
Documentation
An overview of the United Nations work in the field of ageing with full text reports and documents is posted at the UN official web site, section Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Social Policy and Development Division, Ageing.
Yearbook of the United Nations provides an overview of the United Nations work in the field of ageing and the elderly with a detailed subject index. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
Databases and Indexes
The UN Library online catalogue UNBISnet contains reports, documents and articles related to UN activities with links full texts for recent years. Subject search can be performed using relevant terms from the UNBIS THESAURUS.
Data on older persons are posted at the UN official web site, section Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Social Policy and Development Division, Ageing.
Subject search can be performed through the UN official web site, section, Economic and Social Development, Index to Programmes.
Printed Indexes