International Day of Older Persons is October 1

On Dec. 14, 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designed Oct. 1 as the International Day of Older Persons. There have been earlier initiatives, such as the Vienna International Plan of Action on Aging, which was adopted in 1982 by the World Assembly on Aging and later that year by the UN General Assembly. In 1991, the United Nations Principles for Older Persons was adopted, followed by the Second World Assembly on Aging adopting the Madrid International Plan of...