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 [...]
27 January 2016 - Vietnam The provincial Red Cross in collaboration with the Vietnam Red Cross Society organised a workshop on implementation of the project of strengthening the resilience in areas prone to natural hazards in central Viet Nam. [...]
5 May 2015 - Hanoi, Vietnam The Vietnam Association of the Elderly (VAE), in its 20 years of development, has contributed greatly to national socio-economic development, as well as promoting the role of elderly people in the community and [...]
11 September - Hanoi, Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister, Vu Duc Dam, has asked ministries and sectors to work harder to improve the implementation of the Vietnam Law on the Elderly. Collaboration among sectors is needed to achieve the 2012-2020 [...]
This news report broadcast by ABC News in Australia shows the need to see Asia’s ageing population as an opportunity. ABC correspondent Robert Baird reports that Asia is ageing faster than ever before. The United Nation's population fund projects [...]
Representatives from the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) attended the Conference, including AFPPD Chair, Hon. Dr Keizo Takemi MP, who gave the keynote address “Older people as a resource: The precondition of healthy ageing”. AFPPD’s [...]
UNFPA launched several reports at the Regional Conference, including “ Population Ageing in Iran”, published by UNFPA Iran in collaboration with the Demography Department of the University of Tehran and the Statistical Center of Iran. The report provides an [...]
UNFPA Asia Pacific Regional Office published a dispatch from the first day of the Conference (1 September 2014), entitled “Ageing population doesn’t have to be a ‘time bomb’, Asia conference hears”. The predicted catastrophe resulting from the rapid ageing [...]
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