Better indicators are needed to track the well-being of elderly in developing countries

Summary: With aging becoming a pressing issue in many countries, especially in Asia, governments need better indicators that track the well-being of the elderly to craft policies to better meet the needs of the aged. Many countries do not have the data needed for sound policy making, planning, and investment targeting, which leads to piecemeal public policies with little sense of priority. The People’s Republic of China, Thailand, and Viet Nam are just some of the countries relatively unprepared to deal with their rapidly aging societies. Multilateral and nongovernment organizations have developed several global aging indexes that focus on various aspects of aging and well-being. Read the transcript https://bit.ly/2K4HQwe Read the blog post https://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/2018/03/piecemeal-policy-approaches-to-aging-societies-can-they-be-avoided-with-proper-data-on-well-being/ About the author Claude Bodart is an international advisor at the Center for Ageing at the Beijing Normal University Know more about ADBI’s work on aging in China https://bit.ly/2JRrsQg