Title: Report of the Interregional Seminar to Promote the Implementation of the International Plan of Action on Aging, Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 9-20 September 1985.

POPLINE Document Number: 203634

Corporate Author(s):

United Nations. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs

Source citation:

New York, New York, United Nations, Department of International Economic and Social Affairs, 1986. 46 p. (ST/ESA/81.)

Abstract:

The Interregional Seminar to Promote the Implementation of the International Plan of Action on Aging was held from 9-20 September, 1985, at the October Palace of Culture at Kiev, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The objective of the seminar was to promote the implementation of the International Plan of Action on Aging at the interregional, regional, and national levels with a view to formulating strategies for improving its implementation. The International Plan of Action on Aging focuses on both developmental and humanitarian aspects of the aging of populations. It contains recommendations covering health and nutrition, protection of elderly consumers, housing and the environment, family, social welfare, income security and employment, and education. The Plan of Action, however, can only provide broad guidelines and general principles as to the way in which the international community, governments, non-governmental organizations, and society at large can meet the challenge of the progressive aging of the world's population. More specific approaches and policies must be conceived of and formulated in terms of the traditions, cultural values, and socioeconomic conditions of individual countries. Representatives of 28 countries, UN organizations, and members of the UN International Network for Information exchange on aging took part in the seminar. Discussions focused on national experience in implementing the recommendations of the International Plan of Action on Aging.

Keywords:

Developed Countries
Developing Countries
Demographic Aging
Policy
UN
Recommendations
Conferences and Congresses
Progress Report
Planning
International Cooperation
Population Dynamics
Demographic Factors
Population
International Agencies
Organizations
Organization and Administration