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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...
UN States Recommend UN Convention to Protect Human Rights in Old Age – The European Times
Article of the European Times featuring AGE press release on the outcome 14th session of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWG). Read...
Historic Milestone: UN States recommend UN Convention to protect Human Rights in Old Age
AGE Platform Europe applauds the groundbreaking consensus reached at the 14th session of the United Nations – Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWG). For the...
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....
Job Opportunity | Fundraiser – Part-time – Remote
Join us at AGE Platform Europe! We are looking for a proactive and self-driven Fundraiser to amplify our fundraising activities to support age equality. This role entails...
Demanding a Europe for all ages – God Tid – SPF Newspaper
“AGE, with millions of organised seniors across Europe, is calling on the next European Parliament to act so that we have a Europe for all...
AGE: Stop killing innocent people immediately! – God Tid – SPF Newspaper
“In recent years, there have been terrible wars in areas close to us – Ukraine and the Middle East/Gaza. Unbelievable! But what is most unbelievable...
Historic development: UN States recommend a UN convention to better protect rights in old age
Read our June newsletter The 14th session of the United Nations (UN) Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWG), held from May 20-24, 2024, marked an...
Spanish portal ‘Accessibilitas’ available in English
Accessibilitas is a digital platform created by ONCE Foundation and the Royal Disability Board in order to promote the generation and dissemination of knowledge on...
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...
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.
AGE joined citizen debate on artificial intelligence at beEU final event
On 25th May, a report presenting the results of a citizen panel on artificial intelligence (AI) was presented and debated in Brussels, in the presence...
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...
United Nations’ working group on ageing recommends binding instrument to protect older people’s rights
For the first time in its history the United Nations (UN) Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing adopted by consensus a decision recommending that UN Member...
Too young, too old, barred from voting – Speaking up in the EU Elections – EESC
Interview of Dr Heidrun Mollenkopf, President of AGE Platform Europe, in an episode of the Grassroots View of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)....
Long-term care for older people: package for universal health coverage
This publication for the World Health Organization (WHO) includes a list of long-term care (LTC) interventions that all countries could consider, prioritize and provide and...
Changing the narrative: The future we want to see. Insights from older generations – SageJournal
Article by Ilenia Gheno, AGE Project Manager, for the reasearch online magazine SageJournals. The article explores some of the most recent policy tools and research...
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...
Civil society organisations outline the shape of a social EU ahead of the elections
At the conference ‘Building Together the EU We Want’, civil society organisations discussed the EU they want and proposed priorities for the new mandate. We...
Four days that will shape the next five years
Read our May newsletter With less than one month to go to the European elections, the EU institutions are bracing themselves for the next institutional...
Inclusive-by-design retail payments can boost innovation in the EU
AGE was invited to join a panel on Financial Inclusion at a conference organised on 24 April by the European Central Bank on “An innovative...
‘Are you ageist?’ – Older people’s perceptions of ageism in Northern Ireland
This recent report by the Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland (COPNI) details findings on ageism from extensive consultations carried out with older people...
Social housing and beyond – Operational toolkit on the use of EU funds
This toolkit provides an overview of the types of funding available at EU level to promote social and affordable housing and accompanying services in the...
Eu Elections: AGE Manifesto calls for action for a more equal Age Europe – GOD TID – SPF NEWSPAPER
In the run up to the EU elections, Mr Filip Hamro-Drotz, member of the Finnish pensioners’ organisation Svenska Pensionärsförbunde (SPF) and board member of AGE...
