13 November 2013
Current societal and financial challenges are demanding a revision of how health budgets are spent with a view to increasing both...
Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing
17 January 2012
This report has been produced by ILC-UK, drawing on the ideas, issues and challenges of integrating care raised at the Conference on...
Tagged categories include: Care, Health and Health Ageing
05 August 2011
Dr. Robert N. Butler passed away from acute leukemia on July 4 in 2010. “Productive Aging - Robert Butler Memorial Issue” is...
Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing, Longevity
07 July 2011
The report, ‘Non-Communicable Diseases in an Ageing World', discusses salient policy and political issues on the non-...
Tagged categories include: Care, Dementia, Health and Health Ageing
13 June 2011
All OECD countries are experiencing unprecedented demographic change characterised by increasing longevity, a growing older population...
Tagged categories include: Global Ageing, Health and Health Ageing, Longevity
12 May 2011
The International Longevity Centre Global Alliance dinner debate on ‘Narrowing World Health Disparities and Longevity’ was...
Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing, Longevity
10 November 2010
Functional foods could play an important role in supporting older people’s health says a report published this week by the...
Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing, Nutrition and Hydration , Older Consumers
01 January 2010
ILCSA was admitted to the ILC Global Alliance in June 2005. It is operated within The Albertina and Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing in...
Tagged categories include: Dementia, Health and Health Ageing
30 September 2009
The United Nations World Assembly on Ageing has made advancing health and well-being into old age a worldwide call for action. This text...
Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing, Longevity
31 August 2009
In this brief, we summarize the evidence about policies and practices that promote the use of vaccination from all over the world and...
Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing, Longevity
31 January 2009
The striking increase in longevity is a new venture for humanity and a privilege for our
nations as long as the aging population...
Tagged categories include: Future of Age, Health and Health Ageing, Quality of Life, Work and Retirement
31 January 2009
One of the major challenges of ageing societies is to reduce the years of living with disabilities by maintaining elders’ health...
Tagged categories include: Global Ageing, Health and Health Ageing, Longevity
30 December 2008
The project aims to clarify what is essential for them to sustain an independent life. This is the report of the 4th year of the 5-year...
Tagged categories include: Care, Health and Health Ageing, Quality of Life
31 August 2008
Dependency is primarily due to age-related diseases. The second cause of dependency is considered to be “frailty”. The third...
Tagged categories include: Care, Health and Health Ageing, Longevity
30 June 2008
Ultimately, ‘obesity policy’ is about behaviour, and the ability of policymakers to influence the choices and behaviour of...
Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing, Nutrition and Hydration , Quality of Life
30 June 2008
The book published by ILC-I covers the various dimensions of ageing including among other issues, the international initiatives, the...
Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing, Longevity, Quality of Life
28 February 2008
Increasing human longevity represents a scientific and public health triumph of the modern era. However, threats to this advancement...
Tagged categories include: Global Ageing, Health and Health Ageing, Nutrition and Hydration
30 November 2007
The project aims to assess older persons' functioning and the contributions they make to family and community, specifically older...
Tagged categories include: Comunities and Housing, Economics of Age, Health and Health Ageing
30 November 2007
This report explores this issue, and outlines the obstacles facing more widespread immunisation programmes, as well as the benefits that...
Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing, Longevity