Publications

This briefing highlights why the Millennium Development Goals should incorporate targets that include the needs and rights of older people.

This report summarises HelpAge’s 2005 Asia/Pacific regional conference. The conference discussed building capacities for disaster management with a focus on older people.

This report summarises the intergovernmental regional conference held in Zambia in March 2006. The conference included 13 African governments and examined new ways to tackle poverty and promote human rights.

This report examines the major social and economic implications of the rapid growth in numbers of older people in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Russia, Eastern and Central Europe.

This report summarises the HelpAge International's 2006 annual regional conference held in Pondicherry, India. The main theme of the conference was “New paradigms in social protection”.

This report summarises a three-day intergovernmental seminar on social protection. The event gathered more than 80 high-level delegates from 13 countries in Asia.

This document describes the strengths and weaknesses of the Bangladesh model of setting up an older citizens monitoring project.

This briefing calls for interventions aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals to respond to the intergenerational nature of poverty and to rapid population ageing, and adopt a rights-based approach.

This is a summary report of the evaluation findings of a Tanzanian pension project supporting older people and their dependants.

This report discusses the impact of pensions on the lives of older people and grandchildren in Tanzania’s Kagera region. It shows how pensions bring stability and dignity.

This briefing discusses, from an African perspective, the need to strengthen the response to HIV and AIDS. It highlights the ways in which older people can be affected by HIV and AIDS.

This report makes recommendations to the European Union on how to include older people in decent work programmes and how to provide assistance with social pensions.