Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Population Ageing 2024 – Proceedings
The proceedings offer a comprehensive recap of the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Population Ageing, held from 11-13 September 2024 in Bali under the theme Reframing Ageing. Journey through two days of inspiring speeches, dynamic plenary discussions, [...]
Data gaps and ageing in the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated yet again that older people are “chronically invisible” in data. This HelpAge brief illustrates how older people often are being left behind in evidence gathering about health and care, income [...]
COVID-19 and older people in Asia Pacific: 2020 in review
This report is a look back at how the pandemic affected older people in Asia Pacific in 2020. As with the rest of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic dominated Asia Pacific. From early in the [...]
COVID-19, older adults and long-term care in Asia Pacific
This brief, based on a full study by Irving & Bloom that was commissioned by HelpAge, highlights the interaction of COVID-19 and long-term care for older adults in the Asia Pacific region. It is clear [...]
Connect no.8 (Asia Pacific newsletter)
In this edition of 'Connect' newsletter, we summarised COVID-19 related activities and emergency responses conducted by HelpAge and our network members in the Asia Pacific region. Language: English Published: HelpAge International, 2020 Size: 2 MB [...]
Older women’s health and wellbeing in Asia and the Pacific region
This brief is part of ARROW’s State of the Region Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD+25), developed as a result of monitoring of 25 years of [...]
Preventing and managing COVID-19 across long-term care services
This policy brief provides 11 policy objectives and key action points to prevent and manage COVID-19 across long-term care. Its intended audience is policy makers and authorities (national, subnational and local) involved in the COVID-19 [...]
Older people’s associations in Asia: Strengths and key factors for sustainability and replication
Older people’s associations (OPAs) offer an approach for inclusive, sustainable community development that actively engages the growing population of older people. In order to assess how effectively OPAs are meeting the needs of older people, [...]
Access to age-assistive technology: A resilience building measure for older people (Executive summary)
This is summary of the study commissioned by HelpAge International. The objective of the study was to explore the intersection between age and disability and the use of assistive technology (AT) by older people in both [...]
Access to age-assistive technology: A resilience building measure for older people (report)
The objective of the study, commissioned by HelpAge International, was to explore the intersection between age and disability and the use of assistive technology (AT) by older people in both emergency response and as a [...]
Regional newsletter
'Connect' newsletter no.8 is now available for download. In this edition of 'Connect' newsletter, we summarised COVID-19 related activities and emergency responses conducted by HelpAge and our network members in Asia Pacific region.
