Publications

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Tackling ageism through consciousness-raising

This guide is for older people who are interested in starting a consciousness-raising group to share their experiences of ageism and discuss how they might take action on how to improve their lives.

HIV and AIDS peer education manual for older people

This manual contains information and practical exercises for training older people as peer educators on HIV in older people and their families, including human rights, attitudes to HIV, HIV transmission, prevention, testing, living positively, stress management, home-based care, and planning a peer group intervention.

Minimum standards for age and disability inclusion (French) (plain black-and-white version)

The pilot version of the Minimum standards for age and disability inclusion in humanitarian action informs the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes across all sectors and phases of response, and in all emergency contexts, ensuring older people and people with disabilities are included. Targeting practitioners involved in humanitarian response at local, national, and international level, this document includes a set of key standards as well as sector-specific standards and suggested actions.

Minimum standards for age and disability inclusion (French) (plain blue-and-yellow version)

The pilot version of the Minimum standards for age and disability inclusion in humanitarian action informs the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes across all sectors and phases of response, and in all emergency contexts, ensuring older people and people with disabilities are included. Targeting practitioners involved in humanitarian response at local, national, and international level, this document includes a set of key standards as well as sector-specific standards and suggested actions.

Minimum standards for age and disability inclusion in humanitarian action (French)

The pilot version of the Minimum standards for age and disability inclusion in humanitarian action informs the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes across all sectors and phases of response, and in all emergency contexts, ensuring older people and people with disabilities are included. Targeting practitioners involved in humanitarian response at local, national, and international level, this document includes a set of key standards as well as sector-specific standards and suggested actions.

Rapid Assessment Method for Older People (RAM-OP) Manual

This training manual, developed with VALID International and Brixton Health, gives step-by-step guidance on how to estimate the needs of older people in humanitarian and developmental contexts quickly, accurately and at low-cost.

Minimum standards for age and disability inclusion in humanitarian action

The Minimum standards are intended to inform the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes across all sectors and phases of response, and in all emergency contexts, ensuring older people and people with disabilities and not excluded. If you face any problem related to accessibility of the Minimum standards, please contact us at adcap@helpage.org.

ADA campaign training manual: Unit 10 (Russian)

This campaign training manual aims to strengthen older people’s knowledge, skills and confidence to grow as campaigners and change their communities and societies for the better. This unit looks at monitoring and evaluation.