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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...