Problemy funkcjonowania ludzi starszych w Polsce ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem województwa lubelskiego

Population aging is a universal phenomenon in the modern world. According to some demographers predicted percentage of the population of retirement age will increase in Europe over half a century, that is, by 2050 from 27% to 51% in North America from 19% to 35% across the globe from 11% to 25%. In the future this process will accelerate even more wyraźniejszemu to falling birth rates. Demographic forecasts indicate that the number of people in Poland in the retirement age will rise from 5.9 million in 2005 to at least 9 million in 2030, ie 15.4% of the total Polish population to 26.9%. The problems of increasing population and the very last phase of human life becomes the object of interest and concern of international organizations (UN passed the 1991 catalog for Human Rights of Elders), academia and public bodies in many countries. That problem was also taken Forecast Committee 'Poland 2000 Plus ". This very important problem was underestimated by all the authorities for many years. Another emerging governments did nothing to start some preparation for this process. The Ministries of Labour and Social Policy, Health, Education does not have quite the cells or even specialists in this field.