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EU-WIDE

E.D.E. (European Association for Directors and Providers of Long-Term Care Services for the Elderly) was founded in Luxembourg in 1989. E.D.E., the European Association for Directors and Providers of Long-Term Care Services for the Elderly, is a professional organisation of residential and nursing home managers from all European countries, which was founded in Luxembourg in 1989.

To access the website: http://www.ede-eu.org/index.php

To read E.D.E.'s June newsletter

ITALY

ATDAL Over 40 celebrates its 10^th Anniversary

On Saturday 5 May ATDAL Over 40 celebrates its 10th Anniversary in Rome (2002 – 2012). To read the special announcement and more information on the organisation (in Italian) please visit ATDAL website: www.atdal.eu

ATDAL Over 40 – short for “Associazione nazionale per la tutela dei diritti dei lavoratori over 40” - National Association for the protection of the rights of workers aged 40 + - is a non-profit entity established in Milan in 2002 by a group of unemployed citizens, mostly high-level managers and officers. These citizens had been forced to leave their jobs as a consequence of dismissals or individual resignations and were not yet entitled to receive a pension from the State welfare system although in some cases certain workers were very close to qualifying for those pensions.

Since the beginning ATDAL Over 40 has been working at various levels to find solutions for “mature” unemployed people. In this context, the organisation has been engaging political parties, public authorities and mass media by carrying out projects and actions aimed at helping unemployed people over 40 to re-enter the job market and to protect their rights by expanding the current welfare protection system. ATDAL Over 40 also develops educational and information campaigns to raise awareness and effect behavioural change among employers, older learners and workers as well as the general public.

Our focus is on people who lost their jobs at individual level (fired workers, people who were paid to resign or forced to resign through bossing /mobbing acts) and who were left, in most cases, without any kind of support.

The Association’s goals are:

To represent senior workers (aged 40 to 65) faced with hurdles that prevent them from to re-entering the job market, and to address the consequences that such situations can bring about (family crises, social downsides, depression-related illnesses, etc.);

To lobby for legislative solutions in the field of job regulation, aimed at protecting senior workers forced out of the job market while still far from retirement age;

To lobby for legislative solutions aimed at: making it easier for the aforementioned workers to reach the right to retire, a use of State and local welfare instruments in their favour, and overcoming obstacles that arise from outdated laws which “out-of-touch” with the real situation of the Italian economy and society;

To demonstrate and enhance the professional skills and expertise of senior workers;

To support and ease in any possible way the re-hiring of unemployed senior people;

To promote “networking” among Association members, so that new independent enterprises may be set up.

FOCAGG

The Catalan organiation for older people and families, FOCAGG, is organising a series of participative conferences on various issued linked to intergenerational solidarity. the next conference will take place on 17 May. More information on this conference is available here.

TURKEY

Turkish Geriatrics Society (TGS)

The Turkish Geriatrics Society (TGS) is one of AGE's newest observer member. It was established in 2003, is a national, neutral, non-profit organization and it aims to increase the standards in the field of geriatrics and gerontology including education of the academicians, professionals and public. The Society also aims to create or make contributions for the development of technical, scientific and social facilities and it also cooperates with any and all related institutions, organizations, foundations and societies from the national and international area for this purpose. TGS is a member of International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics-IAGG and an observer member of European Union Geriatric Medicine Society-EUGMS and all the educational activities of TGS are supported by International Institute on Ageing-INIA. The society does not engage in politics and does not accept the contributions of the political organizations.

The official scientific journal of Turkish Geriatrics Society is "Turkish Journal of Geriatrics", which is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (Sci Search), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Social Sci Search, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, Index Copernicus Master List, EMBASE, SCOPUS and ELSEVIER.

To visit the website: www.turkgeriatri.org

FRANCE

CFR

In January 2011, Michel Riquier was invited to joint the board of the TDF Digital solidarity Foundation.

TDF (Telediffusion de France) is an operator of hertzian networks for TV and radio data transmissions. TDF and its subsidiaries is currently managing such networks in France, Germany, Finland, Hungaria, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Estonia.

The mission of the Foundation consists in participating to the eradication of the “fdigital gap” and exclusion of vulnerable persons (elderly, isolated and dependant persons ..)

The patronage is based on sharing skills with partners, including town councils, associations, organisations dedicated to social housing…

From 2008 the main role of the foundation has been to facilitate the TV and radio switch over to digital system, through information meetings and training sessions of staff involved in the implementation at local level.

Last Updated on Friday, 04 May 2012 16:47