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These Guidelines for best practice are based on wide-ranging new research from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas and many years’ global disaster experience. They aim to help relief agencies...
The combination of global demographic changes and a growing number of humanitarian crises in middle-income countries that have a higher life expectancy has led to an increase in the number of...
In humanitarian crises, older people are among the most vulnerable, but their needs and contributions receive little recognition when compared with, for example, children. The United Nations High...
This report from HelpAge International offers older people the space to share their hopes and concerns. It also gives them an opportunity to talk about the challenges affecting their daily lives....
Humanitarian policy and programming is increasingly focusing on the inclusion of older people and people with disabilities. However, it is often assumed that older people and people with...
Humanitarian crises affect each person differently depending on their gender, age, disability and other personal characteristics. Older people and people with disabilities are often overlooked in...
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...
This collection includes materials related to elderly people's mental and sociopsychological needs in humanitarian contexts. Often overshadowed in mainstream literature, these materials address...
Given that the frequency and severity of natural disasters as a result of climate change are likely to increase, and that, by 2050, 22% of the world’s population will be aged 60 or over, it is...