Dhaka, Nov. 19 -- Due to advancement in medical science and relative improvement in managing food and shelter as well as increase in awareness in general, life expectancy has considerably increased all over the world. This has augmented the number of aged people, and according to a national daily report, as of 2019, more than 13 million people in Bangladesh were aged over 60 representing eight percent of the country's total population.

Even if one takes into account the period of Covid-19 pandemic when mostly the people above 50 were the victims, the fact is the aged people in society are on the rise. This is good news. The society that has older persons more in number is a place of wisdom whether these older persons are of poor or rich ...