Publications

These guidelines summarise the issues facing older people who are caring for family members affected by HIV and AIDS, and set out ways to give older carers the emotional and social support they need.

Older citizens monitoring is a process through which groups of older people monitor their access to services they are entitled to and lobby for improvements. These guidelines explain how older citizens monitoring works and what it can achieve.

These guidelines discuss older people’s nutritional needs, why older people may not be eating well, and what can be done to help.

The media has a vital role to play in raising awareness of older people’s issues, but older people are under-represented in the media. These guidelines provide practical suggestions for working with the media.

This poster shows how to recover, including assessing the damage, cleaning up and preparing for future emergencies.

This poster shows how to respond during an emergency, including what to do at the first signs of an emergency, the importance of evacuating early and what to do in the evacuation centre.

This poster shows how to prepare for an emergency, including community mapping, communications, preparing an evacuation bag, and general preparedness.

This checklist provides an illustrated guide of what to pack in an evacuation bag in case of an emergency.

This study focuses on communities in the Philippines, that have been affected by natural disasters. It also makes policy recommendations to government and voluntary organisations’ emergency and relief services.

This brochure looks at the invaluable contributions older people make to community safety in the Philippines. It looks at the role played by older people’s associations in responding to disasters and in preparing for future emergencies.

This A5 size comic, shows how older people play an important role in disaster preparation and response activities; as leaders, teachers and mentors. The story highlights older people’s role as leaders who help communities rebuild and recover.

This manual, developed with UNFPA, will support partners who are conducting the bottom-up, participatory review of MIPAA with older people around the world.