Over the past 60 years, many documents, including the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, have addressed the rights of all persons. But it was not until the Declaration on Social Progress and Development in 1969 that the human rights of the elderly were specifically mentioned in an international rights document (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights). The United Nations adopted the first International Plan of Action on Ageing in 1987 and the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Principles for Older Persons in 1991. (more…)

Elder maltreatment and abuse of the elderly is found in almost all countries of the world. According to the World Health Organization, elderly abuse is expected to continue to increase, particularly as many countries experience rapidly aging populations. Throughout the world, both elderly men and women are at high risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Although older men are at risk of abuse in about the same proportion as women, elderly women are at higher risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation in cultures where women are devalued. (more…)

Some genetic mutations appear to accelerate certain features of aging only within a single tissue. There are a very large number of these conditions, which might be referred to as unimodal progeroid syndromes. Here only three examples are considered: one that has a major impact on sun-exposed skin, one that results in an early onset of the most common form of dementia alzheimer, Alzheimer’s disease, and another that results in early-onset Parkinson’s disease. (more…)

Rheumatoid Arthritis affects approximately 1% of the world’s population. Rheumatoid Arthritis
is a chronic, multisystem, autoimmune, and inflammatory disorder that involves peripheral joints in a symmetric distribution. The potential of the synovial inflammation to cause cartilage damage and bone erosions and subsequent changes in joint integrity is the feature of the disease. (more…)

Aging is not only about old age. This is an ongoing process which will define the stages of biological, psychological and social conditions in human lives. Aging has limit for averages human life expectancy rate. For centuries, many have tried modern science to delay human life expectancy rate so much from this frightening condition of man. There are millions of websites on the internet providing information on aging and more than half a million consultations related searches information on how to alter averages human life expectancy rate. (more…)

Not only that the low birth rate leads directly to the aging population, a purely arithmetic on the number of young people, and economic and political context of these developments will strengthen the relationship. The traditional family-based between generations is not possible if we put more people involved (mostly women, will not survive longer than men), most with fewer children. Many countries face this problem in the world, and raise taxes on households of working age to pay for new programs for the aging population. (more…)

The population of man aged over 65 will exceed the number of children under 5 years old in 2040, for the first time in history, according to a study released by the Census Bureau United States, which warned of the impact that this development. It is predicted huge impact will occurs in both the developed and developing countries. Diverse area will affected by these changes in population’s composition. (more…)