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Artificial Intelligence: BAGSO stresses need to protect older people’s fundamental rights
As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading in all areas of life, the German National Association of Senior Citizens’ Organisations, BAGSO, calls for...
AGE supports its members’ mobilization for a European Parliament for all ages
As part of its campaign for a European Parliament attentive to the issue of age equality, AGE has launched a call for proposals to support...
OKRA denounces exclusion of many older people from social energy premium by new law
In Belgium, a new law on social rate premium excludes residents of residential care centres and assisted living homes. Adopted by the previous Belgian government...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Meets with BAGSO Board
Credit: Federal Government/Marvin_Ibo_Guengoer German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with the board of BAGSO, AGE member organisation in Germany, on 17 July 2024. The session included...
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2024: AGE members take action
Abuse and neglect in older age is a largely underreported reality in the EU and worldwide. It takes place in many forms and areas and...
CEOMA accredits age-friendly companies in Spain
AGE Spanish member CEOMA has developed an accreditation scheme for age-friendly companies that commit to combating discrimination and exclusion in older age, for instance by...
Essential services must be accessible – even offline!
Together with 9 of our member organisations, we have co-signed a joint letter calling on the European Union to guarantee off-line access to all essential...
Healthy Ageing & Prevention Index: how do countries perform worldwide?
The International Longevity Centre – ILC is seizing the momentum of the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris to remind that sports and fitness play an...
A walk unites generations in Greece
On the occasion of the European Day of Solidarity between generations, AGE Greek member, ANTAMA organised a walk the unites generations on 28 April in the...
Art in the fight against ageism
Our member the Red Cross of Serbia is running a new EU-funded project against ageism: ‘Age Against The Machine’. Through an interactive and intergenerational approach,...
E-care service for safe living at home shows amazing results in Slovenia
AGE Slovene member ZDUS is partner in a nation-wide project aimed to promote e-care at home. Two years after the launch of the project, its...
On Older People’s Day, BAGSO asks not to exclude people who are not online
On the German Day of Older People on 3rd April, BAGSO, AGE member organisation in Germany, is calling for older people not to be excluded...
Healthy ageing and longevity in Europe: How do we prepare for the 100-year life?
Prior to the European Parliament elections taking place in June 2024, we joined the discussion organized by the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC UK), one...
Old’Up intergenerational festival fosters civic engagement
On 3 February, ahead of the upcoming EU Day of solidarity between generations, our French member OLD’UP (OLD’UP’s group Europe and the World), organized in...
Striving for solidarity between all generations in Europe – BAGSO
Ahead of the European elections in June 2024, BAGSO, the German National Association of Senior Citizens’ Organisations has issued a statement addressed to the candidates....
From Plato to Aristotle: enjoy or suffer longevity?
Our Spanish member FATEC is collaborating with the Foundation Ernest Lluch, Foundation La Caixa, Club of Rome and the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona in...
Regranting: AGE members’ mobilization for the European elections 2024
Six months to go, and all European citizens will elect their representatives at the next European Parliament for the period 2024-2029. Ahead of this electoral...
CEOMA welcomes ban on cash withdrawal fees in Spain, but calls for digital training
In a press release published last December, the Spanish Confederation of Older People’s Organisations (CEOMA) welcomed the measure announced by the Spanish Government to prohibit...
AGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: a new EU project against ageism
The Red Cross of Serbia is joining forces with five EU cities to fight old age discrimination as part of the EU-funded project Age against...
Rising nursing home prices: OKRA urges Belgian government to act
In Belgium, the prices for a stay in a residential care home are rising fast, much faster the indexation of pensions. The Flemish senior citizens’...
APRe! looked at ageism and health at WHO Regional Summit
The recent Regional Summit on Policy Innovation for Healthy Ageing in the WHO European Region provided an excellent opportunity to meet actors committed to promoting...
Digital technology: BAGSO calls for simplified access and free choice
The President of the Federal Association of Senior Citizens’ Organisations (BAGSO), Dr Regina Görner, was invited to give a presentation on age discrimination at an...
Healthy Ageing and Prevention in Europe: How do European countries compare?
The ILC Europe Network is holding a webinar on Tuesday 24 October 2023 to discuss the state of healthy ageing and prevention across Europe. The Healthy...
BAGSO calls for better reconciliation of work and informal care in Germany
BAGSO, AGE member organisation in Germany, has welcomed a second report on ways to reconcile work and informal care, developed by an independent advisory group...
