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Report on ILC Global Alliance 2007 |
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Publications by ILC Centers 2007 |
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Developing National In-Home Caregiver Training Standards
(07, ILC-USA)
 The Caregiving Project for Older Americans, at the ILC-USA gathered a blue-ribbon panel of experts in aging and caregiving in 2007 to examine existing caregiver training programs and explore the development of national training standards for in-home caregivers. This report incorporates discussion by the assembled experts on the topic of paid in-home caregiver training standards including related topics such as curricula, accreditation, certification, career ladder, and caregiver support. |
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Successful Ageing and Social Interaction
(Nov. 07, ILC-UK)
 Obesity is a major public health problem in the UK. This report provides a comprehensive review of innovations and problems in tackling this challenge in light of devolution. Increasing human longevity represents a scientific and public health triumph of the modern era. However, threats to this advancement have emerged in the form of new diseases resulting from modern technology and patterns of living. Chief among these threats is the rapid rise in the prevalence of obesity.
Tackling population-level obesity is complicated by a number of factors including:
* The existence of multi-level governance structures on issues related to obesity ranging from the global, to European, national, regional and local.
* The reluctance to adopt interventions that could be seen to be impinging on the rights of freedom of choice of individuals, particularly on their lifestyles.
In most of the existing literature on obesity, what is written about UK policies tends to reflect policies that exist in England and there is very little mention of policies that may exist in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. The purpose of the research was to review and comparatively analyze the existing national policies targeted against obesity in the four regions in order to gain a better understanding of how obesity is being tackled throughout the UK.
This report was made possible by the generous support of Pfizer.
Author: Primrose Musingarimi, Senior Researcher, ILC-UK. |
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Towards Lifetime Neighbourhoods: Designing Sustainable Communities For All
(Nov. 07, ILC-UK)
 Discussion paper published in partnership with Communities and Local Government.
You can download a copy of this paper by clicking here.
This discussion paper explores how a more age-friendly vision of public spaces and community could boost social engagement, good health and the chances of 'active ageing' for all.
The report explores how the built environment could offer a more accessible, inclusive space for the frail or disabled, but looks further into what role services, amenities, social cohesion and sense of place play in the creation of 'lifetime neighbourhoods', and how they might interact to create communities that maximise health, wellbeing and social engagement.
This paper has been published in partnership with the Department of Communities and Local Government, the Government department responsible for local government, housing, urban regeneration, planning and fire and rescue. For details about obtaining this report in other formats, including printed copies, please follow this link.
Author: Ed Harding, ILC-UK |
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Immunization Not Just for Kids
(Nov. 07, ILC-USA)
 The mistaken belief persists that, except for the flu vaccine, children should be the primary recipients of this important area of primary disease prevention. |
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Successful Ageing and Social Interaction
(Nov. 07, ILC-UK)
 This increasing proportion of very old people in the population means that how to age well, even in later old age, is now an important issue for policymakers and researchers, as well as for older people themselves. |
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SUFFICE report on older South Africans' functioning and contributions released
(Nov. 07, ILC-South Africa)
 A report on a pilot study towards a health intervention under the Study to Understand and Foster the Functioning and Involvement of Contributive Elders (SUFFICE) project has been released. The project aims to assess older persons' functioning and the contributions they make to family and community, specifically older residents of historically disadvantaged areas in South Africa. Information yielded from the study is used to inform the design and implementation of programs at public health care facilities aimed at optimising the elders' functioning and sustaining their contributions. The project is being conducted collaboratively with the Stroud Center for Study of Quality of Life at Columbia University, ILC-USA and the Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. |
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Asset Accumulation in Focus: The challenges Ahead
(Sep. 07, ILC-UK)
 A discussion paper accompanying the publication of Asset Accumulation across the Life Courses. This report discusses the findings of the research in the context of key UK policy debates. |
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A collection of the reports by Presidents/Directors of the ILC Global Alliance concerning human rights issues and efforts towards future in aging society.
From all over the world, research is being reported, which, if it becomes to fruition, would not only constitute major contributions to the treatment of disease but could in principle lead to the indefinite extension of life. 