After attending the third of five virtual roundtable events last week hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) under the banner “Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing”, I was once again struck by the multiple world problems that impact the human rights of older people and in this session right away, it was in an opening
Active. Healthy. Positive. Productive. Successful. These adjectives and more, have all been planted in front of the word ageing to express or define some of our contemporary, forward outlooks or models on how the process of ageing could be better lived. Sometimes words are flipped and we can be found to be successful or positive
Not to rush the future, but 2020 is fast upon us and last week the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) announced its 15th Global Conference on Ageing, entitled “Rights Matter”. Taking place in Niagara Falls, Canada – November 1-3, here is a brief intro to this theme as described on the IFA
Global networks on ageing and longevity are actively engaged in communications, as we head into the fall of 2017, social media and e-news streaming all sorts of messages. Last week in my blog post, I referred to news of the Ryerson National Institute on Ageing (NIA) holding a one-day comprehensive conference in Toronto on November
As mentioned in my first blog post this year, the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) is holding its 14th Global Conference in Toronto from August 8 -10, 2018. While that seems a long way off, it feels comforting to bring it up again on a snowy March day like today here in Toronto. Last week
Final observations and comments about the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) November 2016 conference – Re-think Ageing. If you were new to the subject of ageing and longevity and attended the conference, it would have been a good thing as it served well as a primer, encompassing multiple facets structured around the four pillars in