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Abstract

Global life expectancy reached 73.3 years in 2024, with a growing elderly population, especially in developing regions. This demographic shift has major public health implications, emphasizing the need for lifelong health promotion, early disease detection, and support for older individuals. Older adults contribute significantly to families and society through caregiving, work, and volunteering. The webinar will address the growing elderly population, highlighting public health challenges and focusing on key action areas like combating ageism, creating age-friendly environments, integrating healthcare, and ensuring long-term care to preserve the dignity and well-being of older people.

About the Speakers

Ravindra H. Dholakia

Professor Dholakia was the Economics Area faculty at IIM Ahmedabad from 1985 to April 2018 when he superannuated. He received the Most Distinguished Faculty Award for the year 2017-18 at IIMA. He has about 41 years of experience of teaching Economics to different groups like students, executives, policy makers and senior government officers. He was a regular visiting faculty to teach at the European Management Institute (ESCP-EAP), Paris from 2002 to 2005. He has collaborated on a series of research projects with the Earth Institute of Columbia University from 2004-05 to 2012-13. He has considerable practical experience working in high powered policy making and evaluation bodies in both the Central and State Governments in India. He was on the Monetary Policy Committee of India (2016-21). He was a member of the Sixth Central Pay Commission (2006-08) deciding revision of the pay and pension of more than 10 million employees in India. He was also a Member of the High Level Committees on Leveraging Postal Network in India (2014), HR Issues in the Merger of Air India and Indian Airlines (May 2011- Jan.2012), Public Expenditure Management (2009-10), and on Savings and Investment Estimation (2008-09) appointed by the Government of India; a Member of the Expert Committee on Restructuring of the State Public Sector Units (2004-08), the Public Debt Management Committee (2005-06), and the State Public Finance Reform Committee (1998 – 2000) appointed by the Government of Gujarat. He has recently chaired a Committee on Financial Sector Statistics (2016-18) and is currently chairing a Committee on Sub-National Accounts appointed by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India (2018 onwards) and had chaired a Committee on Cost Saving and Resource Use Optimization in Air India, appointed by Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India (2013).

Andresa Lagerborg

Andresa Lagerborg is an economist at the International Monetary Fund, currently working in the Research Department’s World Economic Studies division. She previously also worked in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department and African Department. She completed her MRes. and Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute and bachelor’s degree in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics. Her research covers a range of issues in the areas of applied macroeconomics, fiscal policy, and demographic change.