Growing old in India: voices reveal, statistics speak

In this long awaited new book Growing Old in India: Voices Reveal, Statistics Speak Ashish Bose, world-wide well-known economist and demographer along with Mala Kapur Shankardass, internationally. reputed expert on Ageing Studies, use the voices of older people, government officials, United Nations Representatives, Voluntary sector workers and a whole range of statistics as part of research, projections and available data from documented sources, census data, etc., to provide insights into the experience of growing old in a country with an increasing ageing population, limited social security benefits. and changing social structure affecting individuals, families and society at large.

The authors, with their expertise in the field of demography, sociology, gerontology and policy analysis, bring forth different dimensions of ageing and response at the national and international level, covering a span of over two decades. With the focus on the First World Assembly on Ageing at Vienna in 1982 to the Second held at Madrid in 2002, Bose and Shankardass bring to the readers in a significant manner the plans, programmes, feelings, and thoughts on ageing, which will dominate the 21st century.