Older activists across East Asia and the Pacific region, from Mongolia to the Philippines, will today join a global campaign calling for the increasing prevalence of diabetes to be tackled through screening, testing, treatment and education. The actions, taking [...]
10 March 2016 - Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia launched its National Dementia Plan on 10 March in Jakarta during a ceremony at the Ministry of Health, pledging approximately $105,000 to support its implementation during the first year. The plan was [...]
4 April 2016 - India Arun Maira, Chairman of HelpAge International, gave an opinion on challenges of ageing population in India. From Maira's point of view, older people can provide cohesion with tradition and bring together conflicting movements for ‘special causes’. [...]
The ILO's World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2016 includes a forecast of global unemployment levels, looking at the situation in developed, emerging and developing economies, with detailed charts and numbers. The report also focusses on the [...]
Community-Driven Development training course Community-driven development (CDD) is an approach that gives control over planning decisions and investment resources for local development projects to community groups. HelpAge's Community-Driven Development course is a one-week capacity building programme with field exposure [...]
This note summarises the preliminary findings of research into the feasibility of a universal social pension in the Philippines. The full report will be released in mid-2016. Language: English Published: The Coalition of Services of the Elderly (COSE) and HelpAge [...]
This report looks at the successes and challenges of the first four years of the Philippine social pension, studying the impact of the scheme and the methods of implementation. Language: English Published: The Coalition of Services of the Elderly [...]
HelpAge regional office Since 1988, HelpAge East Asia/Pacific Regional Office has been working with network members in East Asia/Pacific to implement projects, conduct research, develop capacity and raise awareness on ageing issues. HelpAge network works together on wide range of topics; from livelihoods to age [...]
This charter of recommendations emerged from the Global Coalition of Social Protection Floors meeting at New Delhi, India (27-29th January, 2016). Twenty-five representatives from five different regions came together to talk with each other, to exchange best practices, to converse on the dilemmas [...]
HelpAge-COSE helped older people organised as a group or association. They trained older people and introduced age-friendly or disaster-resilient livelihood and other activities. Language: Filipino and English Published: HelpAge International and the Coalition of Services of the Elderly (HelpAge-COSE), [...]
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