The site covers policy related issues on ageing and ageing societies.

Activities under consideration include organizing subregional seminars and meetings of experts, conducting studies on the interrelationship between ageing, family and public policy, designing future scenarios for ageing societies, including impact assessment of policy interventions, and updating a data bank for regular demographic monitoring of population ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A workshop entitled Care provision in ageing societies what are the policy challenges and how to address them was held in Malta in May 2005.

awareness of the challenge of the demographic ageing of societies, the individual and social needs of older persons, the contribution of older persons to societies and the need for a change in attitudes towards older persons quot 2.

Finally, it may pertain to relations between birth cohorts which, in ageing societies, tend to revolve around questions of funding for social security and health care.

61. In some ageing societies, the media have called attention to incipient age wars , citing age based competition over resources, particularly health care and income security.

Follow up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing by the International Labour Organization (ILO) is based on the premise that genuine solutions to the challenges of ageing societies should be sought by increasing participation in the labour force and promoting job creation.

Population ageing

Action on Ageing

Culture and ageing

12. The fourth facet, ageing and development, addresses the ageing process in its totality.

Ageing of previous recommendations

Ageing and old age

Social change and ageing

Gender and ageing Consultancies

Topics included ageing and employment, ageing and technology, urban design and older people and the media.

The ILO employment and social protection sectors developed a joint proposal for the agenda of the ninety sixth session (2007) of the International Labour Conference on the theme Employment and social protection in ageing societies .

Some neighbourhoods are ageing rapidly.

Technical Meeting on Population Ageing

88. A communication on policies for ageing societies will be ready for adoption in September 1998 by the European Commission, which will also propose further action by the European Union as a follow up to the Year.

and the Habitat Agenda,Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), Istanbul, 3 14 June 1996 (A CONF.165 14), chap. I, annex II. quot Keeping in mind that the ageing of societies in the twentieth century, unprecedented in the history of humankind, is a major challenge for all societies and requires a fundamental change in the way in which societies organize themselves and view older persons, quot 1.

Relative ageing of the old age population itself is becoming a notable feature of the ageing process in the region.

The fact that ageing is not a transient issue makes it necessary to respond to the ageing process in time.

(c) An ageing related development index (ADI).

(e) The older population itself is ageing.

Second UN Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8 12 April 2002 Statement on rural women and ageing presented by this organisation.

Aware that, on the eve of the twenty first century, the ageing of individuals and populations, unprecedented in the history of humankind, is having far reaching effects on the way societies organize themselves, on relationships between the generations in families and communities, on the entire course of individual lives, and on the terms, images and roles of older persons in their societies,

56 118. United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing

Other issues covered are ageing and disabled persons.

(d) The interplay of population ageing and development.

The rapid ageing of the population in the region, in particular the ageing of the older population, would increase expenditure on public health.

Follow up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing

The needs of ageing populations are of growing concern.

Other missions, however, did not have reliable ageing analyses.

(k) Explore initiatives on urban ageing with interested parties

Experts on ageing, design and sustainable environment will discuss the future of design as a vehicle for addressing the social needs of the ageing population.

Societies Registration Act 1860.

The Secretary General will submit to the Commission a report on major developments in the area of ageing since the Second World Assembly (report on the world ageing situation), which could include short regional contributions (regional ageing situations) by the regional commissions.

Discussions during the interregional consultation organized by the secretariat produced the following suggested themes Improving the life quality of older persons Empowerment for sustainable engagement Successful adjustment to an ageing world Active ageing in place and Meeting the challenges of an ageing world .

They include Coalition 99, Federation internationale des associations de personnes agées, the Non governmental Organizations Committees on Ageing (New York and Vienna chapters), the Geneva International Network on Ageing, the International Federation on Ageing, the International Association of Gerontology, EurolinkAge, EURAG and others.

E. Research Agenda on Ageing for the Twenty First Century

The function is available to draw ageing reports on Atlas.

(d) Rural ageing and development community enterprises, appropriate technologies, etc.

II. International Plan of Action on Ageing and related documents

III. Monitoring the implementation of international policy documents on ageing