Organisation
HelpAge International
Campaign organisation on ageing matters
Campaigns on behalf of the world's older population. Provides expertise and grants to older people's organisations through 200 member/partner organisations in 70 countries.
WWW site includes: publication details, including summary of Ageing & Development Report; full-texts of Ageing & Development newsletter and Gender Briefings; some links to member organisations' web sites.
There is also a separate HelpAge International India site.
Published Documents
- Nutrition interventions for older people in emergencies
- HelpAge International, 2013
- In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributio...
- Rapid population ageing means challenges for Myanmar
- HelpAge International, 2013
- Myanmar’s population is beginning to age rapidly. According to UN projections, by 2050 older people will comprise a quarter of Myanmar’s total population. Shortly after 2035, persons aged 60 and older will outnumber ...
- A challenge to the international community to do much more on ageing in the development sphere
- HelpAge International, 2012
- With one in nine persons in the world aged 60 years or over, projected to increase to one in five by 2050, population ageing is a phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. It analyses the current situation of older persons and reviews...
- Electronic payment for cash transfer programmes: Cutting costs and corruption or an idea ahead of its time?
- HelpAge International, 2012
- There is growing interest in the use of electronic payment (e-payment) systems in cash transfer programmes. When cash is transferred to beneficiaries through e-payment technologies such as mobile phone accounts or smartcards, there is...
- Ageways 78: Ageing and Dementia
- C. Till / HelpAge International, 2012
- Population ageing is a major achievement of better healthcare. But as a result, we are seeing many more people getting Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Policy-makers have been slow to see the implications of ageing for he...
- Supporting older people and recognising their rights to decent work and social protection in the post-2015 era
- S. Beales; G.T. Long / HelpAge International, 2012
- Older people account for an increasing proportion of the world’s population today, and this number continues to grow. This paper highlights that national policies and programmes should be shaped to support older people and recog...
- Swaziland old age grant impact assessment
- HelpAge International, 2010
- Cash transfers are increasingly seen as a popular form of social protection, representing a solution to reducing absolute poverty and food insecurity for vulnerable groups. The Swaziland Old Age Grant (OAG) was introduced in 2005 as a...
- Nutrition and baseline survey of older people in three refugee camps in Dadaab
- HelpAge International, 2011
- This report of a survey in camps in north-eastern Kenya shows that older people are vulnerable to malnutrition but often not recognised as such. It recommends how to measure older people’s nutritional status.
- Working with the media - HelpAge guidelines
- HelpAge International, 2011
- The media has a vital role to play in raising awareness of older people’s issues and generating support for older people. These guidelines, aimed at programme managers and communications staff of older people’s organisatio...
- Job vacancies with HelpAge
- HelpAge International, 2011
- All HelpAge job vacancies are posted here. Please check regularly to see if there is a position that you would like to apply for. Please note that HelpAge does not send volunteers overseas.
