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Focus on the Elderly: The World Assembly on Aging

1 June 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.
An old man begs on the streets of Madras.

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