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#ForEveryAge: Taking a life-cycle approach to ageing in Asia-Pacific

Asia-Pacific is the most rapidly ageing region in the world. By 2050, one in four persons will be above the age of 60, the majority of whom will be women. Investing in each stage of a woman's life from childbirth to childhood to adolescence to adulthood will determine the course of her life path. It is only when we invest in every stage of her life, that she, and society as a whole, can age with good health, economic safety, and dignity.

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Asia-Pacific is one of the most rapidly ageing regions in the world.

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A Life-Cycle Approach to Population Ageing

Asia-Pacific is ageing fast. But as governments in many countries worry about this escalating demographic shift, likening it to a "silver tsunami," there are clear approaches that can be taken to convert challenge into opportunity. A life-cycle approach, with gender equality at the centre, is crucial. But what does this mean? Our new video, launched on the International Day of Older Persons, explains.

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