International Day
of Older Persons
1 October 2014
2014 Theme:
Leaving No One Behind: Promoting a Society for All

Why do we need an International Day of Older Persons? By 2020, half of our Indian population will be aged 50 or over. People have a better quality of living, which means longer lives!
Well, as the population changes, the country will too. We need to improve attitudes towards older people and appreciate the roles they play in society more. They can be forgotten about and sometimes treated like lesser members of society. That's definitely not how I want to be treated when I'm older, so let's take care of the elderly in the present and carry it on to the future!
"Leaving No-One Behind" necessitates the understanding that demography matters for sustainable development and that population dynamics will shape the key developmental challenges that the world in confronting in the 21st century. If our ambition is to "Build the Future We Want", we must address the population over 60 which is expected to reach 1.4 billion by 2030.
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