Ageing and gender
- 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 ...
- Facing the reduction in elderly coresidence with children in Thailand
- J. Knodel / Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2012
- The number of older persons in Thailand will increase substantially during the coming decades. This paper indicates that future Thai cohorts entering the old age span will have fewer and more dispersed children to depend on while at t...
- 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...
- Unemployed Chilean women provide care to adults and improve the human capital of informal providers
- D. Bravo; E. Puentes / Department of Economics, Universidad de Chile, 2012
- The provision of elderly care is an issue of increasing importance in Latin American countries. This paper analyses the relationship between providing informal care to adults and labour outcomes in Chile - a middle-income Latin Americ...
- Policy planning for an ageing population
- World Economic Forum, 2012
- If policy-makers and leaders fail to plan adequately for the changes ahead, they will be inundated by the effects of global ageing, such as a dearth of workers, strained pension systems, and overburdened health care systems. This book...
- Older women in India face marginalisation
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- India has a population of approx. 60 million older women (60+). This reporrt argues that in India, women have never found themselves at the centre stage, and have always been marginalised from the mainstream of the society. Livi...
- Program on the Global Demography of Aging
- Research centre on demographic change and ageing
- Perspectives on the human rights of the elderly in India
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- The population of India has approximately tripled during the last 50 years, but the number of elderly Indians has increased more than fourfold. Better medical facilities, care and liberal family planning policies made the elderl...
- Global overview of the social and economic wellbeing of the elderly
- Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2010
- This draft report provides a overview of ageing-related issues at the national and regional levels, building upon the report of the Secretary-General submitted to the 65th session of the General Assembly. It discusses the ...
- The Grandmother Project
- The Grandmother Project (GMP) is an international development organisation working globally to improve the health and well being of women and children. Areas of focus: Maternal and child nutrition and health Early childhood development Water and sanitation Education Female genital mutilation...
- 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 ...
- Facing the reduction in elderly coresidence with children in Thailand
- J. Knodel / Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2012
- The number of older persons in Thailand will increase substantially during the coming decades. This paper indicates that future Thai cohorts entering the old age span will have fewer and more dispersed children to depend on while at t...
- 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...
- Unemployed Chilean women provide care to adults and improve the human capital of informal providers
- D. Bravo; E. Puentes / Department of Economics, Universidad de Chile, 2012
- The provision of elderly care is an issue of increasing importance in Latin American countries. This paper analyses the relationship between providing informal care to adults and labour outcomes in Chile - a middle-income Latin Americ...
- Policy planning for an ageing population
- World Economic Forum, 2012
- If policy-makers and leaders fail to plan adequately for the changes ahead, they will be inundated by the effects of global ageing, such as a dearth of workers, strained pension systems, and overburdened health care systems. This book...
- Older women in India face marginalisation
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- India has a population of approx. 60 million older women (60+). This reporrt argues that in India, women have never found themselves at the centre stage, and have always been marginalised from the mainstream of the society. Livi...
- Perspectives on the human rights of the elderly in India
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- The population of India has approximately tripled during the last 50 years, but the number of elderly Indians has increased more than fourfold. Better medical facilities, care and liberal family planning policies made the elderl...
- Global overview of the social and economic wellbeing of the elderly
- Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2010
- This draft report provides a overview of ageing-related issues at the national and regional levels, building upon the report of the Secretary-General submitted to the 65th session of the General Assembly. It discusses the ...
- The proportion of older persons in the world will double by 2050
- Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2009
- This report provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes a series of indicators of the ageing process by development regions, major areas, regions and countries. This edition includes features on ageing in...
- The importance of day care services in terms of gender-equal practices
- Project on Population Ageing, Economic Commission for Europe, 2009
- Elderly women outnumber elderly men in all countries of the UNECE region. They are more likely to live in poverty, be affected by disability and restrictions of mobility. Many elderly women are widows and at an economic disadvantage. ...
- Program on the Global Demography of Aging
- Research centre on demographic change and ageing
- The Grandmother Project
- The Grandmother Project (GMP) is an international development organisation working globally to improve the health and well being of women and children. Areas of focus: Maternal and child nutrition and health Early childhood development Water and sanitation Education Female genital mutilation...
