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Japan earthquake and tsunami

Three years on

The force of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami shocked the world. Although older people were disproportionately affected, our new study, "Displacement and older people" points at their resourcefulness and resilience.

The study also shows the importance of emergency preparedness at the personal, community and institutional level.

Download the Japan report (2.3mb)

International Women's Day

Older women count

8 March is International Women’s Day – an occasion to celebrate women in all their diversity, including age.

But despite the evidence on how discrimination affects older women, they are absent from the picture. This includes the debate at the UN in New York on how to address gender inequality in the post-2015 framework.

We'll be there at the Commission on the Status of Women over the next two weeks with one message: Older women count.

Haiyan: Three months on

Aid reaches 50,000

HelpAge International and partners in the Philippines have helped almost 50,000 people in the three months since Typhoon Haiyan hit.

Older volunteers have been actively involved in providing help to those affected by the disaster.

We've been getting help to isolated indigenous mountain communities and helping older farmers restore their livelihoods.

Read more on Typoon Haiyan, three months on.

Older people count

Making data fit for purpose

Older people are virtually invisible in international data sets. This means they are left out of development policy-making and its implementation.

Our Global AgeWatch Index and latest Policy Brief look at how to address this issue and include older people.

The brief also answers the call of the post-2015 process to "leave no one behind" in the next development framework. 

Download the data brief (187 kb)