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About the World Summit on Social Development
The United Nations General Assembly, through its resolutions 78/261 and 78/318, decided to convene the “World Social Summit” in 2025, under the title “the Second World Summit for Social Development” to be held in Doha, Qatar from 4-6 November.
The Summit will convene heads of State or Government, along with other leaders and CSOs, to address gaps and recommit to the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action and its implementation and give momentum towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
Advancing Healthy Ageing as a Cornerstone of Social Development
As populations age at unprecedented rates, the global community faces a decisive moment: will we adapt policies and systems to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to age with dignity, health, and voice, or risk leaving millions behind? Our work demonstrates that investing in healthy ageing strengthens entire societies, from resilient health systems and inclusive labour markets to sustainable urban development and intergenerational solidarity. The ageing agenda must be a core component of the sustainable development agenda.
Inequalities in Healthcare for Older Adults: Why lifetime immunization is important
By: Jane Barratt, General Secretary, International Federation on Ageing (IFA) and Isabelle Deschamps, Head of Global Vaccines Public Affairs, Sanofi Pasteur. By 2020, the number of people aged 60 and older will outnumber children under 5[1] for the first time...
UN IDOP Side Event: End Immunisation Inequality Toward Healthy Ageing
The 2019 United Nations International Day of Older Persons (UN IDOP) theme “the journey to age equality” focuses on pathways of coping with existing and preventing future old age inequality. The theme will explore levers to cope with demographic and other societal and...
The Importance of Rehabilitation for Healthy Ageing
IFA Guest Blogger: Kate Swaffer, 2018 Australian Global Leader, 100 Women Of Influence, and Chair & CEO of the Dementia Alliance International writes for the International Federation on Ageing. As a 49-year-old, married, working mother of two teenage sons, I was...
Importance Of Making New Innovations In Home Health Care Services
IFA Guest Blogger: Mr. Andrew Russell In this modern world of medicine and home health care service, there is no other way to survive but to make new innovations. This plays an important role as it will help these care services to reach more and more homes and...
Seeing Through My Father’s Eyes: Reframing Dementia
IFA Guest Blogger: Ms Kimberley Littlemore, is a fellow of Swansea University Medical School and an award-winning former BBC filmmaker. As the Creative Director of eHealth Digital Media, Kimberley is responsible for producing high-quality film content, working with...
Influenza Recommendations for Hajj
3 July 2019 - The Hajj is the yearly pilgrimage Muslims can make to Islam’s holiest city, Mecca in Saudi Arabia to engage in practices to deepen faith and increase a sense of unity and humility within the Muslim community. It is one of the five pillars of Islam and a...
Misconceptions About Living with a Chronic Lung Disease
IFA Guest Blogger: Ms Morgan Dixon A chronic lung disease diagnosis can be frightening, and the misconceptions about living with chronic lung disease can make that fear worse, particularly for older people. However, with continued research on chronic lung disease and...
It’s not all rainbows: Ageing in the LGBTQI2S community
Ageing can pose challenges for any population, but the LGBTQI community faces a specific set of obstacles that make the experience of ageing more difficult than it is for others. Research has proven that older LGBTQI individuals face elevated rates of poverty, social...
Vision Health Month – In Review
As May comes to an end, the IFA would like to take the opportunity to reflect on the events of this advocacy filled month. Over the past 30 days, results from a representative national survey provided further insight into how Canadians perceive their vision health; as...
Dementia: ADI conducts world’s largest survey on people’s attitudes to increase understanding and awareness
Guest Blogger: Chris Lynch, Deputy CEO and Director of Communications and Publications, Alzheimer's Disease International For the millions of people affected by dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, there is still a lot of work to do to change people’s attitudes...
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