June 2023
Members of the ILC Global Alliance got together at the IFA’s 16th Global Conference on Ageing in Bangkok, Thailand, last June. Representatives of ILCs from Canada, Singapore, United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia, as well as ILC GA Secretariat Silvia Perel-Levin, attended the conference.
Members of the ILC Global Alliance attended and presented at the International Federation on Ageing – IFA’s 16th Global Conference on Ageing, in Bangkok, Thailand, from 27 to 30 June 2023.
ILCs from Canada, Singapore, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Australia, as well as ILC GA Secretariat Silvia Perel-Levin, attended the event.
Representing the ILC-UK, David Sinclair, Chief Executive, and Arunima Himawan, Senior Health Research Lead, held a series of presentations at the conference.
- Paper presentation – Vaccine confidence in Central and Eastern Europe
- Paper presentation – Innovating on the high street to support people with dementia
- Paper presentation – Moving the margins: improving adult pneumococcal vaccine uptake in marginalised groups
- Paper presentation – Life course immunisation across the G7 and G20
- Paper presentation – Generation Vax: Leveraging intergenerational relations to increase uptake of vaccination
- Paper presentation – Holding us back? Tackling inequalities in the detection and treatment of structural heart disease in Europe
- Pfizer Symposium – Transforming the Approach to Healthy Ageing: The Importance of a Life Course Approach to Vaccination for Older Adults
- Workshop – Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index
Contact: events@ilcuk.org.uk
Let the elderly be included, they matter
"Let the elderly be included, they matter" is the message that Tineke Abma would like to convey. On Friday, June 23, she delivered her inaugural lecture 'The Art of Belonging' following her appointment as professor of Elderly Participation at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. This is a brief summary of her inaugural speech.
23 June 2023
ILCs reunited at the IFA’s 16th Global Conference on Ageing in Bangkok
Members of the ILC Global Alliance got together at the IFA’s 16th Global Conference on Ageing in Bangkok, Thailand, last June. Representatives of ILCs from Canada, Singapore, United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia, as well as ILC GA Secretariat Silvia Perel-Levin, attended the conference.
June 2023
ILC Canada's Ovide Mercredi delivers speech at the Townhall meeting of UN High Level Political Forum
In the forum moderated by HLPF Chair Lachezara Stoeva, President, UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Ovide Mercredi and other participants discussed the effective and inclusive recovery measures to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and explore actionable policy guidance for the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs at all levels. Speaking as an older Cree man, who has spent his adult life fighting for the rights of First Nations people, Ovide challenged Member States to commit to real change by addressing the SDG goals in a comprehensive manner.
10 July 2023
