This publication, 4th in series, has been prepared with the objective of providing help to policy and programme making for elderly population. Attempts have been made to cull out data on different aspects of elderly population from different sources and put them together at one place along with the national policy on older population and the national programmes for them. Part II gives the details of policy and programmes of Government of India for the welfare of elderly persons while Part III provides data on elderly population in the country as available from different data sources. Part IV is about concepts and definitions for the terms used
in the publication.