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Social Inclusion
A combination of factors such as low income, poor health, age and/or gender-based discrimination, reduced physical or mental capacity, unemployment, isolation, abuse, and limited access to services can all play a part in increasing the risk of poverty and social exclusion as people age.
Given that people aged 65 and over are the fastest growing part of the
AGE seeks to raise awareness of the situation and social realities of older people,, notably within the EU social inclusion process. The Open Method of Coordination remains the key policy framework to develop a comprehensive social inclusion policy and to involve all relevant stakeholders including people experiencing poverty and social exclusion.
Contact person: Maciej Kucharczyk - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
AGE / inc: Transnational Exchange Project - Soziale Eingliederung
The AGE inc project examined the development of the role of older people confronted with poverty and social exclusion in the implementation and further improvement of National Action Plans on social inclusion (NAPs inclusion). In order to facilitate the participation of older people in this process, AGE inc developed a workshop tool kit, a methodology for organising participatory meetings with older people. The underlying concept in producing this working instrument was that older people experiencing poverty and exclusion should be given the chance to be heard and, most of all, to be listened to with their voice and concerns being reflected in political planning, decision making and controlling at all levels.
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 09:41
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- General information
- Letter to Spring Council on Europe 2020 Strategy 25-26 March 2010
- AGE assessment of the 2008 National Strategy Report on social inclusion, pensions and health and long-tem care
- AGE and its Members' activities
- INCLUSage Debating older people's needs
- Spanish EU Presidency and European Commission commit to combat poverty among older people
- EY 2010 - AGE calls for guaranteed decent life and respect for human dignity in old age
- AGE calls for an in-depth analysis of the poverty risk among older people in new Member States and concrete actions to reduce it
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