Publications

This report highlights the key findings and recommendations of a survey carried out in twelve villages across six provinces of Kyrgyzstan between December 2011 and January 2012. The aim of the publication is to gather and present information about abuse against older people.

This report highlights the key findings and recommendations of a survey carried out in twelve villages across six provinces of Kyrgyzstan between December 2011 and January 2012. The aim of the publication is to gather and present information about abuse against older people.

This report highlights how, in IDP communities, older people play a pivotal role. They are often the primary care-givers of their grandchildren and of orphans. Yet despite this, they often experience particular assistance and protection challenges, and are frequently the last to achieve durable solutions to their displacement, as wider efforts focus on younger generations.

French translation of Protecting older people in emergencies: good practice guide. This good practice guide highlights the need for agencies to better understand and address older people’s needs during emergencies, and to integrate their contributions into interventions.

This paper discusses some of the emerging challenges to sustainable development in the run up to Rio+20. It also provides recommendations for policies that support healthy and resilient ageing populations in the outcomes of the summit and the post-2015 framework.

Horizontes 78 edición dedicada al envejecimiento y las demencias que afectan a las personas adultas mayores

This issue of Ageing in Africa provides the developments of the Hunger Safety Net Project in Kenya. It also provides highlights of the Age Demands Action October 2011 campaign in Africa.

Declaracion final de la Reunion de la Sociedad Civil

Spanish translation of Protecting older people in emergencies: good practice guide. This good practice guide highlights the need for agencies to better understand and address older people’s needs during emergencies, and to integrate their contributions into interventions.

The mid-2011 drought in the Horn of Africa affected millions, particularly in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. This briefing paper analyses the needs and capacities of older people displaced by the drought crisis, and urges humanitarian actors to adequately consider and integrate the needs of older people into humanitarian responses.

This is the Service Directory Older People’s Association (OPAs)from the provinces of Battambang and Banteay Meanchey. It is developed with the aim to provide necessary information to all OPAs so they can engage in networking, exchange of information,sharing best practices and peer support.

Right to life without violence in old age reports on a project coordinated by HelpAge International in Kyrgyzstan to collect evidence of elder abuse and build the capacity of crisis centres to support older victims of abuse.