Global AgeWatch Policy Brief 2: Global ageing - its implications for growth, decent work and social protection beyond 2015

This Global AgeWatch Policy Brief discusses the challenges older people face and their enabling roles in the current context of slow economic growth, uncertainty and rising unemployment. It highlights that national policies and programmes should be shaped to recognise their needs for secure livelihoods, and their rights to decent work and social protection. (724 kb)

Global AgeWatch Policy Brief 3: Sustainable development in an ageing world

Global AgeWatch Policy Brief 3 highlights how older women and men are both affected by environmental change and are key contributors to the planet’s sustainability. The opportunities and challenges of global ageing should therefore be central to sustainable development agendas such as Rio+20 and the post-2015 development framework. (661 kb)

Global AgeWatch Policy Brief 1: Mainstreaming aging into the post-2015 process

As the current MDGs approach its deadline in 2015, Global AgeWatch Policy Brief 1 presents why aging and investing in older people must be reflected in the post-2015 framework. It recommends an accountable, rights-based and age-inclusive policy framework that supports people across their life course, and across social, economic and environmental domains. (139 kb)