NEWS:

Health Inequalities are unjust and avoidable, and for too long, have been preventing people from living longer, healthier lives. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in Europe, but the vast majority of them are preventable.

In the run-up to the next UK General Election, what happens next is vital for the Future of Ageing. We need our politicians to have long-term solutions for prosperous and healthy longevity and for the next Government to act on these.

Join the ILC Europe Network for a webinar discussion looking at the state of healthy ageing and prevention across Europe.

How can we better value life-course vaccination to prevent a future pandemic? At this high-level roundtable alongside the UN High Level Meetings, we will debate on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, and on Universal Health Coverage.

Alongside the G20 Health Ministers’ meeting in Gandhinagar, India, in August, ILC-India and ILC-UK will be holding a joint high-level side event to amplify the importance of healthy ageing and prevention among the G20.

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.

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.

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!

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?

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?