Question

Number of elderly people living on streets in india upsc

Answer 1

Elderly or old age consists of ages nearing or surpassing the average life span of human beings. The boundary of old age cannot be defined exactly because it does not have the same meaning in all societies. Government of India adopted ‘National Policy on Older Persons’ in January, 1999. The policy defines ‘senior citizen’ or ‘elderly’ as a person who is of age 60 years or above.
Also, as per Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, senior citizen means any person being a citizen of India, who has attained the age of 60 years or above.

Age Specific Mortality Rate

Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in some population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1000 individuals per year; thus, a mortality rate of 9.5 in a population of 100,000 would mean 950 deaths per year in that entire population, or 0.95% out of the total. There are two concepts within this-one is Crude Death Rate and another is Age-specific Mortality Rate

The crude death rate is the total number of deaths per year per 1000 people.

 

CDR =

 

The age –specific mortality rate is defined as the number of deaths in specific age-group per thousand populations in the same age-group in a given year.

 

ASMR = x 1000