Healthcare for older people in lower and middle income countries

• Main Author: Tan, Maw Pin *
• Format: Article
• Published: Oxford University Press 2022
• Subjects: HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare; RA Public aspects of medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/3039/; https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac016
• Institution: Sunway University

Two-thirds of the world’s population aged 60 years and over will reside in lower and middle income countries (LMIC) by 2050. Many LMICs are experiencing rapid population ageing at a faster rate than in Western Europe and North America, but may not have the resources to respond to the World Health Or...