A Aging Policy Analysis and Evaluation Md. Awal Hossain Mollah Professor of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh Synonyms Aging policy assessment; Older people policy analysis and evaluation; Policy analysis and eval- uation for aging population Definition Aging policy analysis and evaluation is a dynamic careful, systematic, and empirical study, adminis- tering under changing social, political, and eco- nomic situations, which allows examining how the physical, the mental, and social condition of aged people changes and how public policies ought to evolve to meet the changing needs of a changing world (Anderson 2006; Dunn 2012). Aging policy analysis and evaluation play a cru- cial role in assisting in defining and outlining the goals of a proposed aging policy and in figuring out the gap between expected outcomes and pre- dicted costs with competing for alternative poli- cies (Kraft and Furlong 2012). Overview Aging policy analysis and evaluation is not a new and contemporary pressing issue; instead, it is a debating issue since the early nineteenth century, and perhaps it was first systematically analyzed by Tropman and McClure (1978). Throughout the world, population aging raises numerous policy issues about which gerontological researchers, policy experts, and practitioners have much to contribute because large numbers of older persons face challenges such as discrimination, poverty, and abuse that severely restrict their human rights and their contribution to society. Aging of the population was one of the most dramatic develop- ments of the twentieth century and is already a key challenge of the twenty-first century (Doron and Mewhinney 2007, 11). The global trend of popu- lation aging is increasing more than twice, for instance, older people of 60 years or over num- bered 962 million in 2017, which were 382 mil- lion in 1980. The number of older persons is expected to double again by 2050 when it is projected to reach nearly 2.1 billion. Globally, the number of persons aged 80 years or over is projected to increase more than threefold between 2017 and 2050, rising from 137 million to 425 million. The remarkable finding is two-thirds of the world’ s older people live in the developing countries, where their numbers are growing faster than in the developed nations. In 2050, it is expected that nearly 8 in 10 of the world’ s older © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 D. Gu, M. E. Dupre (eds.), Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_212-1