International Day of Older Persons

Name: International Day of Older Persons
Start: 2026-10-01
End: 2026-10-01

Thursday, October 1, 2026

The years past sixty have been added; the question is what we do with them.

The International Day of Older Persons is observed each October 1, designated by the United Nations General Assembly in 1990 to recognize the contributions of older people and to highlight the issues that affect them. The day was a response to one of the largest demographic shifts in human history: