Aging World

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Aging of the body and mind has been a common human experience but aging of the community is a new development. Developed countries are graying now, but soon others will join them. Difference in knowledge made the difference in wealth of nations. A new element, which is graying now joins it. Together they will set in motion a new social dynamics, the gray dynamics. An unprecedented change will follow, which no doubt will face resistance from the existing cultures. Interplay of the new demography and the existing realities will greatly influence the happenings of the coming decades. The Aging World is an exploration of this new world. Policy makers will have to negotiate through this changed situation, and look for cooperation of the communities for cultural adjustments. Gray dynamics will delineate the contours of sociology and politics of the new century. This is the time for individuals to get ready for finding their own place in the changed world. For a change, the elderly, numbering somewhere between one and two billion by the mid-century, will have to play a pro-active role in the living of their long life. The society will not afford their rest and leisure.