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A new centre for successful ageing aims to address the challenges we all face.

Throughout the developed world people are living longer healthier lives and life expectancy is increasing at an extraordinarily fast pace. In Ireland alone the population of people aged 80 or more is expected to treble by 2050. In this broadcast, RTÉ Radio's Marian Finucane discusses ageing…

Migrant workers play a vital role in the care of older people in the United Kingdom but they face poor pay and working conditions that the government must address to ensure fair treatment for the workers, according to this report funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies…

New York, June 9, 2008 -- Stephen McConnell, currently Vice President for Advocacy and Public Policy at the Alzheimer's Association, will join The Atlantic Philanthropies to lead its Ageing Program's policy and advocacy work in the U.S.As Ageing Program Policy and Advocacy Program Executive, McConnell…

by Stephen Rogers THE Government has been urged to start planning for an ageing population as the number of over-65s is projected to increase 245% by 2060. There are 492,700 people in the country over 65 years - 11.16% of the population. By 2060, Eurostat…

By Lauren Foster When Mark Lachs, an internist who specialises in the care of the elderly, looks into the not-so-distant future, he sees millions of retirees and not enough doctors. The baby boomers are moving through the belly of the beast and are coming out…

by EITHNE DONNELLAN THE GOVERNMENT has been warned that if it fails to consult older people on the development of a proposed national positive ageing strategy that it could suffer the consequences in next year's local elections. The warning came yesterday from the Older and…

By Hong Thuy THANH HOA — The burden of bringing up two mentally disabled sons has become easier for 69-year-old war invalid Do Thi Mui since she joined an older people's self-help club three months ago.A lonely and poverty-stricken widow, she often has to spend sleepless…

To meet the needs of a growing number of seniors in Bermuda, policymakers can take two initial key initiatives:  establish a caregiver resource center and set up a care information service on community resources for physicians and others, according to this report commissioned by The…

By Aoife Carr   Shauna Golden of Castleknock Community College, Older and Bolder director Patricia Conboy, and Bernard Bryanof of, Cabra Historical & Cultural Society hand in 43,000 signed petitions in defence of the State Pension at Leinster House last month. A group representing older people has said…