Activities

We played a summary role at an important symposium on aging held by the U.S. National Academy of Science. Dr. Butler has also been asked to be the chair of the Council on Aging for the Davos Economic Forum. We continue to receive support for initiatives in caregiving, a worldwide problem, age discrimination and human rights.

1. Given a steady evaluation as a platform on aging issues.
2. Research project has been making great progress.
3. Endeavor to obtain the same sum of corporate and government funds as the previous year.

1. Paris-House of Parliament -16th Joint Parliamentary Meeting on Longevity - 16 November 2009.
2. Paris- Unesco- First Week End of the “Etats Généraux” of Aging Well – 28/29 November 2009 –
3. Paris – House of Parliament - Parliamentary Group on Longevity

1. ILC-UK Blogs and ILC-UK on Twitter.
2. ILC-UK and the Actuarial Profession Joint Debate: The economic value of healthy ageing and working longer.

1. ILC-DR celebrates International Day of Older Persons.
2. Dr. Rosy Pereyra, president of ILC-DR visits the Vice President of the Dominican Republic Dr. Rafael Alburquerque.

Pioneering research study on “Identifying the Health (Social & Behavioural) Markers as Early Determinants of Dementia in the Seniors of Pune city.”

ILC-South Africa to host 2010 ILC Global Alliance meetings in Cape Town.

Due to worldwide and regional financial difficulties, which hadn’t able to be solved yet, ILC-ARG is finding difficulties to get enough funding to develop new projects for the near future.
Nevertheless we are hoping to start as soon as possible two different and new Research projects:

• Old Age and Discrimination in Argentina
• Perceptions of Human Rights with Elders and Health Professionals.
• Started preparing a new” Train the Trainer Seminar

ILC-NL makes a valuable contribution to the social discussion regarding issues such as work, retirement and social activities, and achieves this by means of gatherings of experts and national meetings.
ILC-NL’s ambition for 2009 lies in strengthening the movement, for people who want to make the most of their future and the future of next generations.

1. Conference titled “Illness Prevention and Health Promotion for the Elderly”.
2. New research groups and projects in Israel
3. On-going research projects in aging:
4. International cooperation