Put a stop to ageism on International Day of Older People

Ageism exists all over the world. This International Day of Older People, Age International is calling on people and institutions everywhere to recognise and reject ageism.

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Healthy ageing is more than the absence of disease

Veronica, 75, sorts through beans.

An astonishing transformation is taking place that has until now been absent from mainstream development thinking: global ageing.

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Despite expansion of social pensions, half of the world’s population goes without

Pensions not poverty.

The second Global AgeWatch Index ranking quality of life for older people around the world welcomes the expansion of social pensions but highlights that half of the world’s population faces a bleak future without one.

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What the 2014 Global AgeWatch Index tells us about pensions

Zaina and her paralyzed husband in Tanzania.

What the 2014 Global AgeWatch Index tells us about pensions.

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