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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its World Report on Ageing and Health, a publication that brings a welcome shift in focus to older people.

HelpAge International welcomes a major shift in thinking on health in older age, with the release of the WHO’s World Report on Ageing and Health today.

When the new Sustainable Development Goals are adopted at this year’s UN General Assembly, governments must respond to the global phenomenon of population ageing and support women and men as they age.

Older activists will illuminate cities around the world as part of a global campaign to ‘light the way’ to a future where older people can live in dignity, free from suffering, poverty and neglect.

Older campaigners are joining activists from all walks of life across the world today to "light the way" to a future in which everyone can live free from suffering, poverty and neglect.

The African Union Commission (AUC) and HelpAge International have urged African Union Member States to develop and implement policies that protect the rights of older people in Africa.

A high-level panel, to launch HelpAge International’s 2015 Global AgeWatch Index and discuss how the Sustainable Development Goals will impact on issues around ageing will take place at the United Nations Secretariat in New York today.

Switzerland is the best country in the world for older people, according to this year’s Global AgeWatch Index, climbing two places to replace Norway at the top spot.

Today (Wednesday 9 September 2015), HelpAge International is launching the Global AgeWatch Index 2015, ranking 96 countries according to the social and economic wellbeing of older people. The Index represents 91 per cent of people aged 60 and over, some 901 million people, measuring the wellbeing of older people in four key areas: income security, health, personal capability and an enabling environment.

HelpAge International has worked with six other agencies to launch a new set of minimum standards to support ageing and disability inclusive responses in humanitarian crises.

At least 300 family kits have been provided by HelpAge International to five camps for internally displaced people in the Magway region in west Myanmar.

HelpAge campaigners met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his Special Advisor on Post-2015 Development Planning Amina J Mohammed during the Financing for Development (FFD3) conference to promote inclusive development for people of all ages.