Global action needed to keep aging world healthy, says WHO spokeswoman
[17 September 2004 - canada.com] Maintaining a healthy lifestyle will help deal with the impact of chronic diseases that will accompany a rapidly aging world population, a World Health Organization spokeswoman said Wednesday. "The time to act is now before we are overwhelmed by the number of older people," Silvia Perel Levin of the WHO's Aging and Life Course Program told a national conference on aging. ...