Some facts on Old age

1.    Growing old is tough because it means coming to terms with gradual decay and debilitation. As we grow old we have fewer real friends. Instead we get ailments to keep us company.

2.    John Updike in his novel “The Widows of Eastwick –
a.    “Old age is a penalty for living longer than our cave-dwelling ancestors”.
b.    We get doddering characters with hands “repulsively emaciated and veined, their arthritic joints shiny with painful swelling” 
c.     Bladders get moody “sometimes not a drop though you know you have to go, and at other times you laugh or sneeze and there go the underpants”

3.    Diana Athill in her novel “Somewhere towards the end” –

a.    “Growing old is simply what one has to pay for what one has enjoyed”.

4.    As per Registrar General of India:
a.    Average Life Expectancy in India jumped by 4.6 years in the decade up to year 2008.
b.    64.6 years for Men
c.     67.7 years for women

5.    7% (81 million i.e. 8 Crores 10 lakhs) of the 1.1 billion Indian population today is aged 60+ years.

6.    As per UN estimates, by the year 2025 there will be about 1,200 million people aged 65 years +

(Reference – an article by Prasenjit Chowdhury in Hindustan Times, Mumbai 9 Oct. 2012)

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