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In Northern Ireland, 40% of households rely on social security as their main source of income – and the number of people of pensionable age is projected to increase significantly from 266,000 in 2002 to 313,000 by 2017. However, as many as 35% of older…

  Supporting advocates who work to persuade members of the U.S. Congress of the necessity of allocating more federal money for children’s health programmes... Backing public interest lawyers whose arguments convince the U.S. Supreme Court that capital punishment for youth is unconstitutional.... Convincing lawmakers to…

Helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people to make lasting changes in their living conditions is at the core of Atlantic’s mission, and in every country in which we work there is significant and sometimes – as in the United States – growing inequality. The persistence of…

Age organisations can make use of market mechanisms to resist welfare reductions and support the resilience of the most excluded old, according to this summary of an evaluation of the social economy ageing programme funded by Atlantic. The social economy approach provides an opportunity for…

By David E. ThigpenVice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement, Insight CenterElders are revered for their experience and wisdom in many cultures around the globe, but here in America where our civic, media and business cultures worship at the fountain of youth, elders are seen…

By Marjorie Valbrun.  "Everyone who is in this group has been fighting for the Dream Act for years," said Tania Unzueta, 26, who emigrated from Mexico when she was 10 along with her parents and 6-year-old sister. She took part in the sit-in at the…

Original Source By Barbara Harding The upcoming 'Say No To Ageism' week from 19 to 23 May is an initiative that seeks to promote a new awareness of the stereotyping of older employees in the workplace. It also aims to support practical action by organisations…

Elderly people are being "mistreated and abused" in hospitals and care homes, according to a new report. by Chris Irvine Age Concern criticises the lack of progress made a year on from a parliamentary report that recommended an "entire culture change" to tackle human rights…

By DAVID LIGHTMAN WASHINGTON - Could high-level Washington deficit-reduction talks lead to changes in Social Security anytime soon? Highly unlikely, Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday. "Social Security is clearly not responsible for the deficits we face in the general fund today and should not be…

We moved to Clayton County, GA in 1974.  I was 14 years old.  I had lived in nine different cities from California to New York, and back to our southern roots when my father was transferred to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…