Blogposts

Ageism, Ageism and Disability, Blogposts December 1, 2018

Access to sign language and sign language environments is a necessity for deaf seniors living in retirement homes!

The European Union of the Deaf highlights that officially recognizing national sign languages is important action to improve access to sign language for all deaf persons including deaf older persons.

Ageism, Ageism and Disability, Blogposts November 29, 2018

Rethinking care for older people through the lens of disability policies

Annika Taghizadeh Larsson, Håkan Jönson and Tove Harnett reflect on how the 2006 U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has helped re-framing the approach to disability from a human-right

Ageism, Ageism and Disability, Blogposts November 29, 2018

Age, disability and the need for a family dimension in long-term care

Persons with disabilities face a number of barriers in people’s attitudes, built environment and institutions which prevent their full and equal participation in all aspects of life. COFACE – FAMILIES EUROPE

Ageism, Ageism and Disability, Blogposts November 29, 2018

‘There are no places where persons with specific requirements can retire’ says U.N. independent expert

As the #AgeingEqual campaign discusses the intersection of ageism and disability, Mr. Stig Langvad, Independent expert member of the United Nations Committee on the rights of persons with disabilities shares

Ageism, Ageism and Gender, Ageism and Migration, Ageism and Race, Blogposts November 28, 2018

Connaitre les trajectoires individuelles pour mieux agir : le cas des femmes immigrées marocaines âgées en Belgique

Il a beaucoup été question du vécu des immigrés hommes marocains qui sont venus travailler en Belgique dans les années 60. L’expérience des femmes reste peu abordée. Fatima Hanine et

Ageism, Ageism and Participation, Blogposts November 28, 2018

Older adults should have equal rights to learning opportunities!

Gina Ebner, from LLLPlatform and EAEA, highlights the importance of life-long learning for older adults’ participation into society. Learning gives opportunities may it be for health and well-being, meeting new

Ageism, Ageism and Participation, Blogposts November 25, 2018

When ageism goes digital

Despite a growing majority of older adults are today using the internet in Europe, Dr. Maria Sourbati stresses age discriminating digital datasets compromise our capacity to build an age-inclusive, smart

Ageism, Ageism and Participation, Blogposts November 25, 2018

Religion, an overlooked factor of older persons’ participation in society

Are older persons more religious than other age groups? To avoid generalisation about older persons’ relation to spirituality, Tom McCormick shares the results from a host of source books and Internet

Ageism, Ageism and Participation, Blogposts November 25, 2018

Digitalisation: an additional threat to human rights in older age?

In today’s world, in a process of constant change, older persons have new opportunities and growing challenges to “not be left behind”. Sandra Huenchuan yet explains the flawed dimension of