"If young women's lives and children's lives are important, why not an older woman's?" I'm always highly cynical of when people write or talk about their "awakening" moment, their "a-ha moment". Maybe I'm just envious because I don't ever...
The vast scale of the Pakistan floods means that today, six months on, millions of people remain in need of the most basic aid. Around 20 million people were affected including 12 million people who had their homes damaged...
I am in Nowshera district, visiting older people affected by the Pakistan floods that swept through the country six months ago. This weekend I visited a rural health centre. The centre was established last October to provide health services...
On the first anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, Doctor Ersno Casimir (pictured)who works in CENSHOP hospital in Port-au-Prince looks back over the past 12 months and tells us how working with HelpAge has improved things for older people in...
It's that time of year again No sooner than the last chime of Big Ben heralding the beginning of 2011 has faded among the sharp, crackle, crack of fireworks exploding in the night sky, happy revellers look to the...
One of the things I've found time and time again since working at HelpAge in Haiti post-earthquake is that older people want to get back on their feet as quickly as possible. They have families to support and want...
My clock radio doesn't realise it doesn't need to wake me as I'm on holidays, so I'm not usually happy to hear John Humphries or James Naughtie's dulcet tones when I should be having a lie-in. But this week...
Wellbeing can be a tricky state for everyone, including older people. Often we focus on the material things, such as housing, food and clothing when we talk about the wellbeing of older people. So much so that the emotional...
Survival When we arrived at the Asile Communal nursing home, all the residents were outside, in the midst of all the destruction. What to do? I went around, I found a woman selling boiled sweet potatoes. I bought the...
Today we visited the community of Caracol in the municipality of Toluviejo in the department of Sucre, which is one of the four communities we work in with our partner Fundacion Red Desarrollo y Paz de los Montes de...
BBC Online has a photogallery of the work of Glenna Gordan, a photographer whose work we really admire. "Aging alone" Her pictures entitled "Aging Alone", show the residents of the King George care home in Sierra Leone. She describes...
Today is Human Rights Day; the theme for this year is human rights defenders who work to end discrimination. Being part of HelpAge International and working on our Age Demands Action campaign, marking the importance of those defending human...
