Publications

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.

A&D24 reports on a groundbreaking series of consultations on social protection in Africa. It also discusses HIV and AIDS, as well as the global food crisis and how social protection can cushion its effects.

Ageways 71 highlights the impact of HIV and AIDS on older people. It sets out the case for including older people in data, policies and programmes, and it gives practical examples of how to do this.

Ageways 72 celebrates the achievements of the HelpAge International network on its 25th anniversary. It shows how much older people's assocations can achieve for themselves and their communities.

This briefing, the first in our Pension watch series, outlines the perceptions of recipients and others of a pilot cash transfer scheme for everyone over the age of 60 and discusses the practical benefits and challenges of implementing the scheme.

The Russian translation of The vulnerability of older people in Osh, Kyrgyzstan