REPORTS:

Health and Healthy Ageing
Protecting the human rights of older persons: Challenges to the human rights of older people during and after COVID-19

Globally, COVID-19 has led to debilitating effects and posed significant human rights challenges for older persons.

Tagged categories include: Care | Communities and Housing | Equality and Human Rights | Global Ageing | Health and Health Ageing | Quality of Life |

The invisible epidemic: Rethinking the detection and treatment of structural heart disease in Europe

Structural heart disease (SHD) is a set of cardiovascular conditions that affect the structure of the valves, atria, ventricles and blood vessels in the heart.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing |

Healthier for longer: Improving adult immunisation uptake in Singapore

This report was made in collaboration with ILC Singapore and explores the relationship between Singapore’s ageing population and adult vaccination.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing |

Current societal and financial challenges are demanding a revision of how health budgets are spent with a view to increasing both savings and sustainability.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing |

This review of evidence and policy across Europe from ILC-UK uncovers a hidden burden of constipation affecting older people.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing |

An ILC-UK report examining the ideas, issues and challenges of the integration of health and social care services.

Tagged categories include: Care | Health and Health Ageing |

ILC-Japan published this report as a tribute to Dr. Robert Butler, the father of gerontology and the founder of ILC Global Alliance.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing | Longevity |

This report highlights the omission of ageing and of Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias from the current focus of the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases, taking place on 19th and 20th September 2011.

Tagged categories include: Care | Dementia | Health and Health Ageing |

A background paper on innovative policy reforms to facilitate active and healthy ageing in OECD countries.

Tagged categories include: Global Ageing | Health and Health Ageing | Longevity |

A report from a dinner debate with the International Longevity Centre Global Alliance, Cape Town

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing | Longevity |

Functional foods can play a role in supporting older people’s health says ILC-UK report.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing | Nutrition and Hydration | Older Consumers |

ILCSA was admitted to the ILC Global Alliance in June 2005. It is operated within The Albertina and Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing in Africa (IAA) in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town.

Tagged categories include: Dementia | Health and Health Ageing |

The International Handbook on Aging. Current research and developments.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing | Longevity |

Older Europeans are not well vaccinated and therefore not well protected against vaccine preventable diseases. Identifying and developing strategies for overcoming barriers to vaccination is therefore an important health policy goal for Europe.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing | Longevity |

This ILC-France report describes demographic data and examines the causes of the increase in longevity and implications on working lives.

Tagged categories include: Future of Age | Health and Health Ageing | Quality of Life | Work and Retirement |

An ILC-Israel executive summary of the longitudinal study on on the effects of coping patterns with deterioration in health on successful aging.

Tagged categories include: Global Ageing | Health and Health Ageing | Longevity |

In a super-aging society Japan it is predicted that people aged 75 or older living alone and elderly couple-only households will go on increasing.

Tagged categories include: Care | Health and Health Ageing | Quality of Life |

Françoise Forette, CEO of ILC-France, explores the concept of functional dependency and its link with the increase of longevity.

Tagged categories include: Care | Health and Health Ageing | Longevity |

This ILC-UK policy brief is the third and final publication of a series focusing on policies addressing obesity in the UK.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing | Nutrition and Hydration | Quality of Life |

the international Longevity Centre- India has come out with this book to understand this global phenomenon of 'ageing' and its implications in the right spirit and perspective.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing | Longevity | Quality of Life |

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.

Tagged categories include: Global Ageing | Health and Health Ageing | Nutrition and Hydration |

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.

Tagged categories include: Communities and Housing | Economics of Age | Health and Health Ageing |

The mistaken belief persists that, except for the flu vaccine, children should be the primary recipients of this important area of primary disease prevention.

Tagged categories include: Health and Health Ageing | Longevity |