Date: 20-22 May 2019 Venue: Tokyo, Japan This year’s Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology (AGen) theme will take the reflective concepts of “Independence and interdependence” as its lens, exploring any number of questions and issues surrounding the independence and interdependence [...]
Date: 29-30 April 2019 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Adopted in 2015, the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Ageing: Empowering Older Persons in ASEAN recommends actions to promote “healthy, active, and productive ageing”, seeking to strengthen older persons and their families. The zero [...]
This report is an in-depth analysis into disability and ageing in Myanmar. Language: English Published: HelpAge International, Myanmar Country Office, 2018 Size: 1.2 MB Download
The brief draws on two studies HelpAge International commissioned with support from the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT). The two main studies are Ilene Zeitzer 2018, “A situational analysis of disability and aging in Myanmar”; and Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan [...]
The IFA 14th Global Conference on Ageing will be convened at the Chelsea Hotel and Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada on 8-10 August 2018. The title of IFA’s 14th Global Conference, “Towards a Decade of Healthy Ageing – From Evidence to Action,” is in response to [...]
The Asian Development Bank will hold two events presenting empirical papers to deepen understanding of the implications of population aging and technology on productivity among countries in Asia. The first one, with the theme of "Technology and an Aging Workforce; [...]
The Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing in collaboration with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Gerontological Association of Malaysia, will hold a National Colloquium on Ageing and the Voluntary Sector on Thursday 12 October 2017, at Vistana Kuala Lumpur Titiwangsa. [...]
The implications of Population Ageing in the Asia-Pacific region have become increasingly complex. ‘Old age’ is being redefined and transformed due to the changing intersection of the social, medical and clinical aspects of ageing. Successful adaptations turn on the resilience [...]
Fifteen years after the adoption of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), the third global review and appraisal of the MIPAA will be conducted in 2018. In preparation for the global review, the United Nations Economic and [...]
With the theme “Global Aging and Health: Bridging Science, Policy, and Practice”, IAGG 2017 will bring representatives from medicine, nursing, social science, psychological science, finance, policy fields, and other disciplines to address the latest approaches to improving the quality of life [...]
