1999 the last year of this century and this millennium, is the International Year of Older Persons, which was declared at the resolution 47/5 of the UN Assembly in 1992, with the theme being “Towards A Society for All Ages”. Abstract What is most important for the International Year of Older Persons is to increase understanding of the old-age issue by the whole society and to reach consensus on the status of the older persons in the society, the needs of the older persons to realize self-development and self-value, or simply speaking, the older persons being equal members of the society. In fact, issues related to old-age or population ageing are largely issues of looking at the value of the older persons. A clearing up of the existing misconceptions and negative or pessimistic views thus becomes necessary and important. Four scholars from different disciplines are invited to contrbute to such a topic in this “Population and Development Forum”. 1999 the last year of this century and this millennium, is the International Year of Older Persons, which was declared at the resolution 47/5 of the UN Assembly in 1992, with the theme being “Towards A Society for All Ages.” Abstract What is most important for the International Year of Older Persons is to increase understanding of the old-age issue by the whole society and to reach consensus on the status of the older persons in the society, the needs of the older persons to realize self -development and self-value, or simply speaking, the older persons being equal members of the society. In fact, issues related to old-age or population ageing are largely issues of looking at the value of the older persons. A clearing up of the existing misconceptions and negative or pessimistic views thus becomes necessary and important. Four scholars from different disciplines are invited to contrbute to such a topic in this “Population and Development Forum”.