Yearly Archives: 2023
Early detection of frailty in elders is important to prevent its complications. The development of a self-administered questionnaire may reduce the burden for the medical community and be an opportunity for empowering elders to identify frailty themselves and raising frailty …
30th May 2023
Living a Fulfilling Life at 90: Interview with Keiko Higuchi, Japan’s Leading Social Commentator
Ms. Masako Osako, Executive Director of ILC Global Alliance Secretariat, recently sat down with Ms. Keiko Higuchi, President (rijicho) of a Japan-based NPO, Women's Association for the Better Aging Society (WABAS) and a leading social commentator and popular author in Japan. At 90 years old, Higuchi has recently published a new book titled, “Hold on! I am still alive and thriving at age 90,” which is a sequel to her enormously popular book published in 2019, “Ready, set, go! You are now becoming an “old-old person.”
15 March 2023
G7 high-level side events in Japan: Healthy ageing and prevention
Alongside the G7 Hiroshima Summit 2023 in May, the ILC-UK is organising high-level side events in Japan, one in Niigata, and the other in Hiroshima. Please see the details below for each and how to register.
23rd March 2023
Report launch – Moving the needle: Improving uptake of adult vaccination in Japan
For a wealthy and rapidly ageing country, Japan remains an outlier in terms of attitudes to adult vaccination. Join the ILC-UK for the launch of the Moving the needle report, produced in partnership with Stripe Partners.
23rd March 2023
Nursing home care quality improvement efforts in the United States
An effort to improve nursing home quality in the United States that could serve as a model for other countries is underway. The 2022 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report, The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality [1], was the catalyst for a multi-faceted and multi-stakeholder effort to change the course of nursing home quality, which has been recognized as a serious problem for decades.
6 March 2023
ILC-India organises Online Essay Competition to celebrate World Women’s Day 2023
To celebrate World Women’s Day on 8th March, ILC-I organized an online Essay competition exclusively for older adults where they expressed their thoughts on the topic titled “An inspiring lady who has influenced my life!”
February 2023
An event to celebrate the World Women’s Day 2023
ILC-India is planning to celebrate the World Women’s Day 2023 at an Old Age Home by organizing a few activities in an infotainment way!
1st March 2023
Pandemics and longevity: Will we die, survive, or thrive next time?
We clearly learnt a great deal from the Covid-19 pandemic, but do we know enough to mitigate the impacts on ageing populations when we are faced with the next global health risk?
17th February 2023
Getting to grips with ageing: Can Japan and the UK learn from each other?
Japan is the only super-ageing nation in the world. At the same time, it is a comparatively healthy country. What can the UK learn from Japan, and vice versa? And how can we leverage the opportunity of Japan’s upcoming G7 presidency?
17th February 2023
Healthy ageing in Israel and the UK: What can we learn from each other?
Israel and the UK enjoy the services of well-organized, (largely) not-for-profit, national systems of healthcare delivering high-quality care to all age groups. This event – jointly run by ILC-Israel, the Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Aging at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and ILC-UK – will explore the state of healthy ageing in both countries and what the UK and Israel can learn from each other.
17th February 2023
