(Boshin August, the first two days), September 12, 1988, the United Nations Sendai meeting alerts urban population aging troubled global.

1988, by the United Nations Population Division, co-sponsored by Japan's aging society, research centers and Sendai explore global scale urbanization phenomenon of aging and its countermeasures international conference held in Sendai, Japan. More than 50 representatives from 19 countries and regions including China, India, (history com) the United States, (history com) Egypt and other attended the meeting.
Currently, the world population is rapidly to cities, urban elderly population in the rapid growth. It is predicted that by 2000, more than half of the world's elderly population will be concentrated in urban areas, which account for the vast majority of the world's elderly population concentrated in developing countries. The urban population had a serious impact on the aging of the world's economic and social development. adopted
meeting last the Sendai Declaration called on the international institutions, Governments and their local self-government bodies, non-governmental organizations fully understand the seriousness of the problem of urban aging, from now on to take corresponding countermeasures. Declaration To further promote the family pension based policy; legislation, in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly; duty-free preferential policies for the family of a burden on the elderly, and to give the necessary social services and funding. The declaration also called on to provide re-employment opportunities, which is an important force to promote the economic development of healthy elderly fully. [1 $ dj��.c��m]