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Almost 74 per cent of Malawians live below the national poverty line.

10 December is Human Rights Day. The theme this year is human rights defenders who work to end discrimination.

HelpAge International and AARP launch Global AgeWatch Insights reports focusing on Tanzania and Vietnam, looking at the right to health and access to universal health coverage for older people.

This year is shaping up to be our biggest Age Demands Action yet. In the campaign's sixth year, 61 countries will take part on 1 October - the UN International Day of Older Persons. And for the very first...

Tanzanian village voices: Demography, epidemiology, policy and the realities of care
For many, it seems hardly noteworthy to mention that the world is ageing. Contrary to common belief, it’s not only European and high-income countries that are agei

Climate change and global ageing are two of the biggest issues facing humanity this century, yet explicit links between the two are rarely made.

The world's population is ageing rapidly, causing development challenges for nations across the globe.
For many of the world's most developed nations, the shift to an ageing population took place over a long period of time, 100 years in some...

1 October 2013 marked the 7th year of our Age Demands Action campaign. Campaigners in 59 countries took part in this massive global campaign. It was an extremely successful day and we want to thank everybody across the world...

Glynnis Cummings-John moved from the UK to Sierra Leone during the aftermath of Ebola as a Technical Inclusion Advisor for HelpAge International. She has been instrumental in the development of Sierra Leone's first National Ageing Policy, which will imp

Today, on International Women's Day, people around the world are campaigning for equality and the end to discrimination and violence against older women.