World Chronicle 850: Aurelio Fernandez Lopez, UN Second World Assembly On Ageing

Michael Littlejohns interviews Aurelio Fernandez Lopez, Commissioner of the Spanish Organizing Committee for the United Nations Second World Assembly On Ageing, for World Chronicle program 850.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / World Chronicle
• Video Length: 00:28:21
• Production Date: 13 December 2001
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: AURELIO FERNANDEZ LOPEZ; BILL REILLY; EDITH LEDERER; MICHAEL LITTLEJOHNS
• Subject Topical: AGEING; AGEING PERSONS; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; POPULATION
• MAMS Id: 2190174
• Parent Id: 827223

Description

"AGEING IN THE 21st CENTURY WORLD"

Ageing is a central issue in the 21st century. There are 600 million elderly people in the world today and that number is expected to grow to about 2 billion by 2050. Large numbers of elderly individuals present societies everywhere with social and economic challenges, and these are now growing on an unprecedented scale. In this edition of World Chronicle, Aurelio Fernandez Lopez, Commissioner of the Spanish Organizing Committee for the United Nations Second World Assembly on Ageing, that will be held in Madrid in April 2002, discusses what this international gathering is expected to achieve.

• Scripts: File; 850.pdf (35.62 KB)