Ageing Societies and Health

The rising life expectancy of the world population will increasingly change and shape the image of 21st century societies and alter them gradually. Today, two thirds of the elderly are already living in the global south and more than half of those with lowest income and partially under precarious social and health conditions. Being more of a “blind spot” in development cooperation until now, scientists and organizations working locally find themselves increasingly confronted with the (health) consequences of this process. This MMS Bulletin approaches a subject which raises questions, but provides only scattered solutions. (Photo: Edmund Revelian/Kwa Wazee)