By Faranak Bakhtiari

Aging population: a crisis bigger than coronavirus

TEHRAN – According to official statistics, Iran will be the oldest country in the world by the next 30 years. This will bring up many individual and social consequences both in national and international arenas even bigger than the coronavirus crisis.

By Faranak Bakhtiari

Let's care more for our elderly during coronavirus

TEHRAN – Many people around the world, particularly the elderly, are suffering from impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Iran to have oldest population in region by 2050’

TEHRAN – Iran will be home to the largest aging population in the region by the next three decades due to the large proportion of citizens aged over 35 years who are expected to be over 65 years old by 2050, the deputy health minister said.

Low birth rate unprecedented over past three decades

TEHRAN – Iran’s birth rate has been declining since last year up to now, which was unprecedented over the past three decades, head of committee on population studies affiliated to the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution has stated.

Elder abuse in Iran at 56.4%: survey

TEHRAN- A research surveying 3,436 Iranian elders over a ten-year period from 2005 to 2015 revealed that elder abuse in the country stands at around 56.4%, the Iranian Research Center on Aging reported. 

Iran’s first geriatrics clinic to be inaugurated 

TEHRAN— The first geriatrics specialty clinic in Iran will be inaugurated by the end of the current Iranian calendar month (Feb. 19) in Semnan province, Semnan University of Medical Sciences chancellor has said.

700,000 add to Iran’s aging population annually

TEHRAN – The older person’s population will grow three-fold within the next 30 years in Iran, as some 700,000 people are added to the aging population of over 60 each year, head of the secretariat national council of the elderly has said.