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A new alliance for age diversity in the workplace

OldSchool@WorkAlliance is an emerging collective whose members will establish best practices for holding companies accountable for
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Improving working conditions in care is critical to the human rights of older people

Mark Bergfeld, European Director of UNICARE, tells us about the two inter-connected challenges brought to us
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Awake the Power of Your Own Inner Old Lady

Photo of and by Maria Seruya Have you ever stopped to imagine who you want to
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Elderly care must pay more attention to exclusion mechanisms

There are more and more elderly people with migration roots. But not in the nursing home.
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Celebrating ageing with anti ageist birthday cards!

Photo of Anti-Ageist Birthday Cards by Changing the Narrative CO Serendipitously last year there were several
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“Open attitude is a prerequisite to culture-sensitive care” stress Fatoş

This testimony is extracted from an interview of Fatoş Ipek-Demir by Linda van Ingen published in
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Adopting a rights-based approach to ageing

Human rights must be at the heart of policy work on ageing at EU, national and
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The UN global report on ageism kicks a worldwide campaign

“YES to ageing. NO to ageism!” by AGE Platform Europe The United Nations has published the first
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If you want to talk about ageing, then do it properly

The word ‘ageing’ does not mean ‘old’ or older. It is an adjective which refers to