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Friday, 13 July 2018, 4:30 – 6:30 pm UN Headquarters, Conference Room 4
Lead Discussant remarks of Sylvia Beales, Gray Panthers/Stakeholder Group on Ageing.
Ageing is transforming our world. We are all ageing. Older persons are the fastest growing population group globally, reaching 22% by 2050 with 54 percent of that number being women, and almost 60 percent living in urban areas, with 46 per cent those aged 60 years and over living with disabilities. Older people experience complex forms of exclusion and marginalization based on a range of intersecting inequalities that reinforce discriminations based on age, gender and disability…
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