Publications

This brief highlights some of the key features and achievments of the Pension 65 programme introduced in 2011 to reduce poverty and vulnerability among older people in Peru.

This briefing explains why responding to population ageing and furthering the rights of older people are urgent issues for the EU's development cooperation, and proposes how the EU can strengthen its development policy.

This briefing explains the nature of gender inequality in older age and recommends how the EU's development and external action policies on gender equality and women’s empowerment can be implemented in a way that will benefit all people in older age.

Issue one of a project newsletter about disaster risk reduction in the Asia-Pacific region.

Issue two of a project newsletter about disaster risk reduction in the Asia-Pacific region.

Ageways 84 describes how organisations in Southern Africa have formed national networks to collaborate on research, programmes and advocacy on ageing issues and strengthen the voice of older people.

This manual contains information and practical exercises for training older people as peer educators on HIV in older people and their families, including human rights, attitudes to HIV, HIV transmission, prevention, testing, living positively, stress management, home-based care, and planning a peer group intervention.

In this edition of AgeNews, we look ahead to the HelpAge 2016 regional conference, dementia in Indonesia, Age Demands Action on Health, policies affecting older people in Vietnam and the forum on social protection and ageing in Myanmar.

This briefing paper looks at the issue of women's equality across all ages.

Our annual study of humanitarian financing of older people illustrates the failure of the current system to allocate adequate resourcing to address older people's needs. It offers a sobering analysis of the extent to which older people are being left behind in emergencies.

This report documents the situation of older refugees fleeing from conflict in Syria, Ukraine and South Sudan. The findings contribute to a growing body of evidence illustrating the failure of the humanitarian system to protect older people's rights or meet their needs. The stories highlight the limited progress the humanitarian system has made to address the neglect of older people and other vulnerable groups.

Asegurando la inclusión de las personas mayores en emergencias