Search resources, channels and events
According to the UN definition, older people are those people whose age is 60 years and above. This also corresponds with Ethiopia's official retirement age. In the past, older people in Ethiopia...
These guidelines have been prepared to help integrate and mainstream the concerns and issues related to older persons into disaster risk management programmes and processes. They outline...
This publication is intended to provide disaster mental health and human service workers, service providers, program planners, administrators, as well as care givers, and older persons themselves...
What this report has shown is that there are tools out there, such as the WHO’s mhGAP Intervention Guide and Training Manual and the Washington Group Extended Set of Questions, but these are not...
To this end, the guidelines outline the policy framework for engaging with older people in development (section 1.2) and key factors associated with working with older people (section 1.3), before...
Over the years, human rights bodies such as the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) have placed extensive emphasis on the need to protect socio-economic rights, especially of vulnerable...
The overall aim of the meeting (organized jointly by the Bingu Silvergrey Foundation for the Elderly and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Lilongwe, Malawi, 28-29 November 2007) was...
Articles in this journal focus on the most important issues for older people and come from contributors from around the world. They focus on issues regarding employment and human rights; care and...
A recent report shines the spotlight on the experience of displacement for older people in an effort to increase understanding of its particular characteristics. Entitled, The Neglected Generation...
Older people in Africa are involved in all aspects of the migration chain: they are voluntary or forced migrants themselves, they shape the migration experience of others by funding youth...