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  UNECE policy brief on ageing 1: mainstreaming ageing

  Project on Population Ageing, Economic Commission for Europe, 2009

  This policy brief looks at how governments can integrate ageing-related issues into all policy fields in order to bring societies and economies in harmony with demographic change. It also addresses the ways in which all age groups can be equally involved in designing, implementing and evaluating ageing-related policies and programmes.
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  Social panorama of Latin America 2009

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009

  This paper links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of recent crisis. The report notices that the different states of the region vary in their preparedness to protect at-risk groups in an economic downturn. The paper underlines these findings:
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  Social protection policy: responses to older people’s needs in Zanzibar

  HelpAge International, 2009

  Zanzibar runs a system of contributory pensions (the ZSSF) covering those employed in the public and formal sectors.  But overall, only about 40 per cent of older people receive any form of cash payment in their old age. Changing family structures, migration and general poverty have eroded traditional patterns of support, and even where support exists, it is normally inadequate.
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  National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)

  NCLC works to defend the rights of low-income consumers and to advance economic justice.
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  Packages of care for dementia in low- and middle-income countries

  Public Library of Science Medicine, 2009

  Two-thirds of people with dementia live in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), where there are few services available and levels of awareness is low.  This paper focuses on the effective management of dementia in LMICs, reviews the evidence on efficacy of interventions and their delivery derived from LMICs where possible.
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  Israel's long-term care insurance scheme

  Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009

  Concerns about the implications of population ageing and the size of the elderly population with disabilities led Israel to began to implement its Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) Law fully in 1988.
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  The use of antipsychotic medication for people with dementia: time for action

  Department of Health, UK, 2009

  There have been increasing concerns over the past years about the use of these drugs in dementia. The findings of this review confirms that there are indeed significant issues in terms of quality of care and patient safety. These drugs appear to be used too often in dementia and potential benefits are most probably being outweighed by their risks.
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  What drives health care spending? Can we know whether population aging is a ‘red herring’?

  Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2009

  Many studies argue that projections of health care spending should be based on the assumption that age-specific health care spending should be assumed to decline because of reductions in age-specific mortality rates. This paper contradicts that hypothesis, considering its suggestion unjustified.
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  The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG)

  Te Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) is a multidisciplinary research centre on ageing at NUI Galway.
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  Growing old in a changing climate: meeting the challenges of an ageing population and climate change

  Stockholm Environment Institute, 2009

  Climate change and an ageing population bring together two key policy challenges which need to be addressed to ensure a safe, secure, equitable and sustainable future. to, and casualties of, climate change as well as potential campaigners to tackle the problem.

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