Publications

This issue looks at why elder abuse occurs and ways to prevent it, a programme in Tanzania that challenges beliefs on witchcraft, and an older people’s centre in Bolivia promoting older people’s rights.

This special issue covers the adoption of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and HelpAge’s “citizens’ monitoring project” to help reporting on government implementation of the Madrid plan.

This issue includes articles explaining how HIV and AIDS is having a devastating effect on older people, along with updates about related projects in northern Thailand and Juba, southern Sudan.

This issue includes articles on what income-generating activities can do, planning and financing a project, and case studies on a sheep-farming scheme in Ethiopia and a craft project in Jamaica.

This issue includes an article outlining some of the issues facing those close to death and their carers, people’s hopes and fears about death, and schemes in the Philippines that aim to help cover funeral costs.

This issue includes an article on ways to include disabled older people in development activities, disability awareness raising, and a credit scheme in Haiti that helps blind older people to economic independence.

Ageways 65 discusses the effects of old age and poverty on mental health, a project in Mozambique to help relieve stress of older people with HIV and AIDS, self-help groups in Kyrgyzstan, and recognising depression.

Ageways 66 looks at why older people's needs and capacities are overlooked in emergencies, with practical methods to ensure their inclusion. Also, how communities can protect themselves from natural disasters.

Ageways 67 promotes citizen monitoring as a development approach, drawing on the older citizens monitoring project in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Jamaica, Kenya and Tanzania and a similar project in Ethiopia.

Ageways 68 shows how a balance of advocacy and practical activities in older people’s organisations can change policy and practice in favour of older people, as well as bringing more immediate benefits.

Ageways 69 highlights the value of taking an intergenerational approach to development. It shows how projects involving older people and children benefit both generations and contribute to social cohesion.

Ageways 70 presents the case for social pensions as an effective way to reduce older people's poverty and that of their families. It argues for a universal rather than a means-tested approach.