WeDo launches its website

After developing a European Charter of the rights and responsibilities of older people in need of long-term care and assistance and its accompanying guide (more information: www.age-platform.eu/en/daphne) as part of the EU funded EUSTACEA project, AGE has been coordinating the two-year running project “WeDO: A European Partnership for the Wellbeing and Dignity of Older people”, since December 2010. The project, which gathers 18 partners from 12 different member states, seeks to promote quality long-term care standards within the EU.

The WeDo project has just launched its new website: http://www.wedo-partnership.eu/

The WeDo website will provide a wealth of useful information and examples of good practices on the topic of long-term care and the fight against elder abuse. You can also register to the project's monthly newsletter.

For more information on the WeDo project and AGE's work in the field of elder abuse, please contact Maude Luherne at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Last Updated on Thursday, 08 December 2011 13:00

European Antibiotic Awareness Day on 18 November

The annual European antibiotic awareness day, run by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC) aims to raise awareness about the increasing threat to public health of antibiotic resistance within the EU and about how to use antibiotics responsibly.

The initiative, targeted at the general public and the primary care providers, seeks to support efforts at national level to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use in hospitals through the development and dissemination of educational materials promoting prudent antibiotic use.

http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/EAAD/Pages/Home.aspx/

EHealth Action Plan 2012-2020: AGE Platform Europe's contribution

25 May 2011

AGE Platform Europe submitted a contribution to the consultation of the European Commission on the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020.

By end 2011, the European Commission will deliver a second eHealth Action Plan which will provides an opportunity to consolidate the actions which have been addressed to date, take them further where possible and provide a long term vision for eHealth in Europe, in the context of the EU 2020 Strategy, the Digital Agenda for Europe as well as Innovation Union and its associated European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 May 2011 14:30

AGE - Contribution to the revision of the clinical trials directive

11 May 2011

AGE contributed to the consultation open by the European Commission on the revision of the clinical trials directive. Considering the recent development regarding geriatric medicines, particular the decision made by the European Medicine Agency (EMA) in February 2011 to launch a geriatric medicines strategy, AGE Platform Europe considered this revision of the directive has an opportunity to support this new strategy and decided to focus its contribution on the need to improve participation of older people in clinical trials of medicines commonly used for geriatric patients.

For more information, please click here

Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:20