A study of Aging People with Disability Demography Characteristics and Its Impact on Socio-economic Development in Iran

Today in the most countries the increasing of aging population (60 years and more) poses a big challenge to their socio-economic development. Social and economical problems of aging people and rising of healthcare and welfare costs have been complicated and need comprehensive planning and policymaking to solve them. Iran is one of the countries which face the problems of young population. it seems unacceptable to talk about aging people while most of the discussions focus on young population and its problems, but the fact is that some portions of population have been aged.
Relevance of the study:
-Impacts of aging on the socio- economical expenditures of the government.
-Studying demographic, social and economic features of the aging in Iran including sex ratio, migration, life expectancy, literacy and education, Dependence Ratio and...
Documentary method and secondary analysis method will be used for this study. Then by using the data resulted from 1996 -2006 National Population and Housing Census, the Aging will be analyzed and reported.
The prevalence rates handicap were higher in women than men, and increased with age. Disability in the older population of Iran shows familiar prevalence patterns by age and gender.