This animation aims to inform care home managers and provides a simple guideline to ensure safety in residential care homes, for both staff and older people. Although the situation of the pandemic in many Southeast Asian countries [...]
This animation aims to inform care home managers and provides a simple guideline to ensure safety in residential care homes, for both staff and older people. Although the situation of the pandemic in many Southeast Asian countries [...]
This video is a result from the video secondment funded by the European Union. We put together video clips from 5 countries highlighting older people's initiatives and the innovation of older people's associations in different countries to [...]
HelpAge International and Coalition of Services of the Elderly, Inc. (HelpAge-COSE) Typhoon Yolanda Response Programme recognise the vulnerability and capacity of older people in disasters. HelpAge-COSE's community-based disaster risk reduction and management activities included and trained older people [...]
World Bank released a video with the same title as their recent publication "Closing the health gaps for the elderly: Promoting Health Equity and Social Inclusion in Thailand". The video presents the gaps of accessing universal health coverage scheme’s care system by the [...]
On 23 February, the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Thailand (FCCT) held a panel discussion to explore the options for Thailand and other countries facing the tectonic demographic shift and turning to ageing society. Along with representatives from [...]
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), [...]
In the Philippines we have teamed up with the Coalition of Services of the Elderly (COSE) to provide healthcare to older people who survived Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines in November 2013. Language: English Published: HelpAge International and [...]
The global population is ageing. Asia is at the forefront of this phenomenon. The demand of care for older people are rising. Here comes a question "who will take care of these older people?" In January 2015, [...]
The 2014 HelpAge Network Asia/Pacific Regional Conference, held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Chiang Mai, brought 204 participants from 29 countries together to look at a decidedly timely topic: how to redesign our societies so [...]
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