Population ageing in the Caribbean: An inventory of policies, programmes and future challenges

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cepal.callNumberLC/CAR/G.772
cepal.docTypeDocumentos de proyectos e investigación
cepal.jobNumberLCCARG772_en
cepal.regionalOfficePuerto España
cepal.topicEngAGEING
cepal.topicSpaENVEJECIMIENTO
cepal.workareaEngPOPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
cepal.workareaSpaPOBLACIÓN Y DESARROLLO
dc.contributor.entityNU. CEPAL. Sede Subregional para el Caribe
dc.coverage.spatialEngCARIBBEAN REGION
dc.coverage.spatialSpaCARIBE
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-14T15:15:24Z
dc.date.available2015-08-14T15:15:24Z
dc.date.issued2003-12-23
dc.description.abstract“We must be fully aware that while the developed countries became rich before they became old, the developing countries will become old before they become rich”. This statement made by Gro Harlem Brundtland, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, at the World Assembly on Ageing in 2002 in Madrid, reflects the challenges that the developing world is facing in the twentieth century. Population ageing is a global phenomenon, which is having and will have major implications on all aspects of human life in every society. This process is enduring and irreversible, as observed from differing patterns and distinct paces in various regions and countries all over the world. The United Nations has undertaken various efforts to repeatedly draw governments’ attention to the growing demand for answers to these encompassing and profound demographic changes. Various initiatives on the global as well as on the regional and subregional level have been undertaken to highlight the pressing need for concerted action. Of importance in this regard are the numerous agreements reached at the global conferences on social development, population and women orchestrated by the United Nations in the 1990s, which all refer to ageing as an issue of particular concern. The year 1999 was proclaimed by the General Assembly1 of the United Nations as the Year of Older Persons to recognize ageing as one of the major achievements but, at the same time, as one of the major challenges all populations have to cope with in the twentieth century. This continuous call for action culminated in the Second World Assembly on Ageing, which was held in Madrid 2002, where governments agreed to the implementation of a global action plan. This new Plan of Action focuses both on political priorities such as improvements in living conditions of older persons, combating poverty, social inclusion, individual self-fulfilment, human rights and gender equality. To an increasing degree attention is also devoted to such holistic and overarching themes as intergenerational solidarity, employment, social security, health and well-being. Mandated by the Second World Assembly on Ageing, the Population Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CELADE) has convened the Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in November 2003 in Santiago, where a regional strategy for the implementation (ECLAC, 2003b) of the commitments reached in Madrid has been adopted. Further, a background document (ECLAC 2003a) on the situation of the elderly in the Latin American and Caribbean region, of which this document is a substantive part, has been presented to the meeting. Participating government officials formally committed themselves to work on a national follow-up strategy and to report on the progress made in the implementation of their commitments to the Ad hoc Committee on Population and Development to be convened in 2004.
dc.description.tableOfContentsI. Demographic ageing.-- II. Population ageing: policies and programmes.-- III. Summary and conclusions
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dc.format.extent55 páginas.
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dc.identifier.unSymbolLC/CAR/G.772
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11362/38861
dc.language.isoeng
dc.physicalDescription55 p.
dc.publisherECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean
dc.publisher.placePort-of-Spain
dc.rights.coarDisponible
dc.subject.unbisEngAGEING
dc.subject.unbisEngPOPULATION
dc.subject.unbisEngLIFE EXPECTANCY
dc.subject.unbisEngFERTILITY
dc.subject.unbisEngILLITERACY
dc.subject.unbisEngLABOUR
dc.subject.unbisEngSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject.unbisEngECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject.unbisEngHEALTH
dc.subject.unbisEngDATA COLLECTION
dc.subject.unbisSpaENVEJECIMIENTO
dc.subject.unbisSpaPOBLACION
dc.subject.unbisSpaPROMEDIO DE VIDA
dc.subject.unbisSpaFECUNDIDAD
dc.subject.unbisSpaANALFABETISMO
dc.subject.unbisSpaTRABAJO
dc.subject.unbisSpaDESARROLLO SOCIAL
dc.subject.unbisSpaDESARROLLO ECONOMICO
dc.subject.unbisSpaSALUD
dc.subject.unbisSpaRECOPILACION DE DATOS
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