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AGE endorses joint statement on the revision of the EU Victims’ Rights Directive
More than 50 organisations have signed a joint statement on the Council’s Position Regarding the Revision of the Victims’ Rights Directive to urge all EU Member States...
Work-Life Integration – AGE Policy Paper
Credit: David Tett AGE position paper explores the holistic concept of ‘work-life integration’ that we are advocating for. Unlike the notion of work-life balance, work-life...
Help us in gathering information for World Suicide Prevention Day – Survey deadline September 3rd
10 September will mark World Suicide Prevention Day. AGE has partnered with GAMIAN-Europe, an EU network working on mental health and marking this day every...
Mental Health of Older Persons – UNECE
This policy brief from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) outlines the determinants and prevalence of mental health issues among older adults in...
Global database of promising interventions to address abuse of older people
Produced as part of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, this database aims to develop a portfolio of effective approaches to prevent and respond to...
Share your initiatives for quality integrated long-term care in Europe
As part of the Laurel project, AGE is looking for integrated long-term care initiatives on the national, regional or local level. Laurel is a Horizon...
Ensuring a digital future for healthy ageing – Pharaon final conference
With more the 200 participants, the final conference of Pharaon presented the work of the EU-funded project to make smart and active living for Europe’s...
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day: EU States must reinforce Victim’s Rights!
On World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, 15 June, we call for BINDING standards to ensure better protection for victims of elder abuse across EU countries....
EU Care Strategy: Turn the nice words into national action!
Together with our members, we propose recommendations to reform the long-term care systems and meet the ambition of the European Care Strategy in 10 countries.
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...
AGE discusses long-term care along the life course at International Conference on Integrated Care
AGE participated in the 24th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC24) in April, co-leading an engaging workshop on the present and future of long-term care...
AGE calls for ensuring that people everywhere can live in peace
“We, the members of AGE Council of Administration – which met on 12 April 2024 in Rome – are concerned about the ongoing and continuing...
Joint call for an ambitious European Long-Term Care Platform
AGE has joined 16 EU organisations in calling for the creation of a European Long-Term Care Platform to enhance the formal dialogue with civil society...
De Gelderhorst : a Dutch national centre for older deaf people
“De Gelderhorst” is the national centre for older deaf people in the Netherlands. Located in Ede, the services offered by the centre include accommodation, residential...
Ageing & technology – Takeaways from e-VITA final conference
As a partner in the e-VITA project, AGE co-organised the final conference of the 3-year joint European – Japanese cooperation on the use of robotic...
Join a survey on the provision of health & social care to older persons
Are you a practitioner (e.g., nurse, social worker, personal assistant, informal caregiver, medical practitioner, etc.) providing health or social care to older persons? If so,...
New EU project LAUREL will develop policies for integrated long-term care
As a project partner in the EU-funded project LAUREL, AGE participated in the kick-off meeting of the project on 7th and 8th February in Barcelona,...
Promoting physical activity and healthy diets for healthy ageing in the WHO European Region
Lifestyle and medical advances that contribute to longevity are achievements to celebrate, but they have brought considerable and unintended social, economic and health challenges as...
Le Village Landais : Innovative home for people with dementia
Inspired by the De Hogeweyk – Dementia Village in the Netherlands, the ‘Village Landais’, in France is an innovative home for people with dementia. Opened...
Ageing in the spotlight of the 2023 European Public Health Conference
At the 16th edition of the European Public Health Conference in Dublin (Ireland), we discussed and showcased the preliminary outcomes of the ValueCare project that...
AGE Barometer
AGE Barometer assesses on a bi-annual basis the socio-economic situation of older people across the EU and how this situation underpins the respect of their...
Connecting healthy ageing and vision
The report Connecting Healthy Ageing and Vision, released on World Sight Day by The Fred Hollows Foundation and the International Federation of Ageing (IFA), calls...
EU-level roundtable on the psychosocial approach to mental health
As part of the activities organised around the European Day for Mental Health on 10 October, we were invited to a round-table co-hosted by Estrella...
Long-term Care in Europe: A New Start? – AARP Journal
Long-term Care in Europe: A New Start? – Blog post for AARP Journal, 31 August 2023. “As COVID-19 swept over Europe, thousands of avoidable deaths...
