Our previous blog on post-2015 discussed the absence of global ageing from the Millennium Development Goals. The structure, goals and targets in the current framework simply doesn't allow for age-group disaggregation. The HelpAge Network must ensure that
Plans for this year’s main Age Demands Action campaign are well under way, with 60 countries expected to take part and celebrate the UN International Day of Older Persons on 1 October, 2012. We have new partners taking part...
I knew we had at least two things in common before walking into the UN Commission on Social Development together: we both care about older people and we are both attending our very first UN meeting. For Kenneth, a...
Older pastoralists in the East of Africa are calling for urgent action to save them from a drought that is leaving them and their entire way of living passed down the generations, at breaking point.
The 61st UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in March was vibrant with the sound of female voices from many continents. It showed the strength of the determination to make progress on women claiming their rights, especially...
Policy leaders have been explicitly called to include people of all ages in national and international data systems, according to the Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data.
A national photo competition on the "Working Elderly" in India, which reveals the widespread and diverse nature of older people's work has had over 900 pictures uploaded and over 9,000 votes in just a week. It was inspired by...
Why even bother with a World Stroke Day, when the world's attention is now entirely focused on the perils of Ebola? The current panic is unhelpful, but understandable.
The Ebola epidemic will escalate over the coming weeks and months, and...
There are no "older people" in Bangladesh and yet one in ten people are soon to be over 60. Confused? I am talking about the murky world of categories and definition. You see, in a country where what constitutes...
For the past eight years Serbia has marked the International Day of
Older Persons by organising ADA campaign on the 1 October and for the last two
years we have worked on introducing GAWI as a tool helping us in building...
