GUIDELINES FOR THE PREPARATION OF NATIONAL REPORTS
Note by the Secretariat
1.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, in his report to
the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session on the programme
and arrangements for the World Assembly on Aging (A/35/130), stated
that each country would be invited to prepare a national report
which would analyse, preferably in accordance with a uniform general
outline, the main issues, both humanitarian and developmental, with
which it had to deal, the ways in which they were handled and the
experience acquired in that respect. The Secretary-General further
recommended that the national reports should not be translated or
published, but could be distributed by delegations at the time of
the Assembly or made available to other countries beforehand.
2.
Member States, in formulating their national reports, may wish
to follow the outline of the Secretary-General's report on the
programme and arrangements for the World Assembly (A/35/130), as
indicated in the following sections.
I. DEFINITION OF AGING
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3. It is widely recognized that the process of aging begins at
conception and continues until the death of the biological organism,
and that growth and maturation of the organism are related to the
early and middle stages of human development. The aging are those
in that one third or one fourth of the life-span during which loss
and decline - psychological, economic and social are greatest.
Such loss is not always due to biological forces: it may also be
a result of social, economic, environmental and cultural factors. The word "aging" provides a more adequate description than the
terms "elderly" or "aged". It suggests continuing development
and change during the later stages of the life-span, rather than
a fixed or static period of life. "The aging", therefore, is a
term that could best be used to define those sections of the
population that have left the middle years of life behind them.
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