China Has Already Included 97.12 Million Senior Residents Aged over 65 into Health Management

摘要

On October 11,2012,Ministry of Public Health held a routine press conference.Kong Lingzhi,Deputy Director General of Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention of Ministry of Public Health introduced relevant work in elderly healthcare. Kong said the number of the aging population aged over 60 in China had reached 178 million by the end of 2010, accounting for 13.26%of the total population;and those aged over 65 had reached 119 million,accounting for 8.9%of the total population.China is the only nation in the world with more than 100 million old people. Characteristics of population aging in China are large population size,fast population growth and advanced age.Incidence