FARAH ASAD MANSURI

ABSTRACT

“Good health adds life to years” is the theme of World Health Day 2012, where life course approach has been proposed to promote healthy ageing. It is very much evident that the enormous increased size of older age group is becoming a “new normal” for the world’s population and according to safe estimations, in next five years the population of people aged 65 years will outnumber children under age of five. Though this trend appears universal ranging from 8% elderly population half century back to 12% now but it is imminent that low and middle income countries will be having 80% of the world’s population of elderly in next couple of decades. Ageing is an uninvited event for majority of the population but ideally one must gracefully enter into older age with maximal social interactions around him. The numerical age should no more define old age or frailty and a sensible planning should be done to reverse the clock. The time has come when we have to put aside all excuses like inaccessibility to care and lack of money for deciding how to stay fit. It is all the more important to deliver comprehensive clinical preventive services to this population in cost effective way....

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Department of Community Health Sciences, KMDC Karachi