This edition discusses how older people’s organisations can use the media to ensure that older people’s issues are properly reflected in public debate. It shows how organisations have worked successfully with the media, in particular to highlight elder abuse in India and to show the impact of the Age Demands Action campaign. It explains how new technologies are changing the way the media works and sets out practical guidelines on working with the media.

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HelpAge International's new "age helps" position encourages people to re-think their attitudes to ageing. This issue shows how much older people contribute to society and to their own development. You can find out how to apply an "age helps" approach to your own work, and how to spread the message that older people are a positive force for change.

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Ageways 72 celebrates the achievements of HelpAge International on its 25th anniversary. It also shows that, with the right support, older people can achieve much for themselves and their communities.

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Ageways 71 highlights the impact of HIV and AIDS on older people, both as carers and at risk of infection themselves. It sets out the case for including older people in data, policies and programmes, and it gives practical examples of how to do this.

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Increasing numbers of people are entering old age with little or no means of support. Ageways 70 presents the case for social pensions as an effective way to reduce older people's poverty and that of their families. It argues for a universal rather than a means-tested approach.

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This issue highlights the value of taking an intergenerational approach to development. In particular it shows how projects that involve older people and children benefit both generations and contribute to social cohesion.

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Ageways 68 looks at why more older people’s organisations are integrating advocacy into their programme work. It shows how a balance of advocacy and practical activities can change policy and practice in favour of older people, as well as bringing more immediate benefits. Articles include: how advocacy furthers older people's rights; guidelines on planning a programme; tips on collecting and using numerical data; suggestions for measuring impact; and case studies on AIDS data in Africa.

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Promotes citizen monitoring as a development approach, drawing on the older citizens monitoring project in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Jamaica, Kenya and Tanzania and a similar project in Ethiopia. It explains why older people need access to services and why they often miss out.

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Looks at why older people's specific needs and capacities are overlooked in emergencies, and suggests practical ways to ensure their inclusion. It includes articles on improving older people's access to relief and how communities can protect themselves from natural disasters.

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This issue includes articles on the effects of old age and poverty on mental health, a project in Mozambique to help relieve stress of older people with HIV/AIDS, self-help groups in Kyrgyzstan and how to recognise depression.

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This issue includes an article on ways to include disabled older people in development activities, awareness-raising that emphasises disabled older people’s rights and abilities, removing environmental and social barriers to inclusion, and a credit scheme in Haiti that helps blind older people towards economic independence.

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This issue includes an article outlining some of the issues facing those close to death and their carers, people’s hopes and fears about death, burial schemes in the Philippines that aim to help cover funeral costs, and caring for someone who is dying.

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This issue includes articles on what income-generating activities can do, planning and financing a project, and case studies on a sheep-farming scheme in Ethiopia and a craft project in Jamaica.

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This issue includes articles explaining how HIV/AIDS is having a devastating effect on older people, how older people’s associations are offering loans to improve the lives of those affected by HIV/AIDS in northern Thailand and how members of older people’s committees in Juba, southern Sudan, are educating their communities about HIV/AIDS.

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This special issue focuses on the Second World Assembly on Ageing. It includes articles on the adoption of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, the World NGO Forum on Ageing (which preceded the Second World Assembly) and HelpAge International’s "citizens' monitoring project" to help reporting on government implementation of the Madrid plan.

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This issue focuses on violence and abuse directed against older people. It includes articles on why elder abuse occurs and what can be done to prevent it, a programme in northern Tanzania that challenges beliefs on witchcraft and an older people’s centre in Bolivia that promotes older people’s rights.

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This issue focuses on home care and volunteers. It includes articles on what is meant by home care and why there is a need for it, a gerontological association in Moldova that recruits home visitors for older people, and efforts by older people in Mozambique to support vulnerable people in their communities.

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