Services for the older adults: a pressing need in the face of an aging population

Abstract

In 1950, five years after the United Nations was founded, global population reached 2.6 billion inhabitants. By 1987, this figure reached 5 billion and, in 1999, 6 billion. In October 2011, there was an estimate of 7 billion inhabitants. To celebrate this historical event, a global movement called “A world of seven thousand million” was created. Lastly, in mid-2015, global population reached 7.3 billion inhabitants which means that this figure has increased by 1 billion.2