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The World Assembly on Ageing, held in Vienna, Austria, between July 26 and August 06, 1982, was the first international convention at the United Nations (UN) regarding the issue of aging. It resulted in the adoption of the Vienna International Plan of Action by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) (See “Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing”). It was followed by the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid, Spain, in 2002.
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Secretary-General of the United Nations Javier Pérez de Cuéllar opened the World Assembly on Ageing in 1982 by proclaiming, “Of all the major UN conferences held in recent years, the World Assembly on Ageing is the one whose subject matter intimately touches upon the present or future of every man, woman and child who lives a normal span of life on this earth” (Letzig 1983). The UNGA had called for the conference 4 years earlier when in 1978 it passed Resolution 33/52. Representatives of 124 UN...
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Patterson, W.R. (2019). World Assembly on Ageing. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_247-1
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