Ageism

Ageism, Ageism and Gender, Blogposts October 14, 2018

‘Older women carry on – as they always do’: the 2nd week of the #AgeingEqual campaign in a nutshell

Our second #AgeingEqual campaigning week looked at the intersection of age and gender. We touched upon specific issues faced by older women and non-binary people as the consequence of life-long differential

Ageism, Ageism and Participation, Good Practices October 12, 2018

“Let’s give the chance to everyone to speak out”: an experience of co-creation

Our society walks, acts, reacts fast. And it often behaves as if older people were second-class citizens, whose needs, concerns and wishes should not be considered on an equal ground

Ageism, Ageism and Intergenerational Solidarity, Blogposts October 12, 2018

Contre l’impératif jeuniste, changeons de regard sur la vieillesse !

En février dernier, peu après les mobilisations sur la prise en charge des personnes âgées dépendantes en France, Pascal Champvert et Marie de Hennezel publiaient une tribune engagée contre l’âgisme

Ageism, Ageism and Gender, Ageism and Migration, Ageism and Race, Blogposts October 12, 2018

Ageing of migrant women: the story of multiple discrimination

Taking advantage of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – that will be celebrated next 10 December, the European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW) gives us a

Ageism, Ageism and Migration, Ageism and Race, Blogposts October 12, 2018

Ageing labour migrants from the 1960ies at risk of marginalisation in European welfare states

Ursula Trummer, from the Center for Health and Migration Vienna stresses the vulnerability of migrant workers who arrived from Turkey, Italy, Spain and Portugal to work in Central and Western

Ageism, Ageism and Intergenerational Solidarity, Blogposts October 12, 2018

Why you should be calling for a new U.N. convention for your rights in older age

Nena Georgantzi explains the link between ageism and human rights breaches and makes the case for adopting a new treaty to better protect human rights for all ages. As someone

Ageism, Ageism and Gender, Good Practices October 11, 2018

The Albanian Society for All Ages, a movement of activists transforming women’s lives

The Albanian Society for All Ages (ASAG) is the only voice for older women in Albania. Ermira Pirdeni, ASAG Executive Director works tirelessly to provide supplementary platforms to express and exchange

Ageism, Ageism and Gender, Blogposts October 11, 2018

Why do I want to live in a world for all ages?

How old will we be in 2060 – the year in which older women over the age of 85 will constitute the largest group in society? If, as Liat Ayalon,

Ageism, Ageism and Intergenerational Solidarity, Good Practices October 11, 2018

EveryAge Counts: an advocacy campaign aimed at tackling ageism in Australia

EveryAGE Counts is an ambitious campaign spearheading a social movement with a challenging goal: to shift social norms (those unwritten rules of how we think and behave) and positively influence