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ILC-BR President Alexandre Kalache delivered several master classes during the month of May.

In May 2018, hundreds of people in Rio and São Paulo had the opportunity to listen to Alexandre Kalache, in the Jewish Cultural Centre (Centro Cultural Midrash), the House of Knowledge (Casa do Saber), Fiocruz’s Centre of Strategic Studies of Health, the University of São Paulo and at an event for 300 professionals of the agribusiness sector. He also delivered a keynote at SESC, the Social Service of the Commerce for the State of São Paulo.

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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.”

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!”

This report shows the real life of older adults in Japan. Their labour participation rate, financial assets, relationships with neighbours are described first, and then systems such as pension, medical and long-term care are being explained with numbers and figures.

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