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Focus on the Elderly: The World Assembly on Aging

1 January 1981

Between 26 July and 6 august 1982, a special UN sponsored World Assembly on aging will be held in Vienna to discuss the long range future of the world's elderly. Issues on the agenda include health, housing and the environment, social welfare, income security, education and the family, and the role of the elderly in development.
Work never ends for the elderly in many nations. Here an old farmer ploughs a field in rural Bangladesh.

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