Second World Assembly on Ageing "If history serves as a guide, the Plan of Action will shape the content of national, regional and international policies on ageing in the decades to come." ...

Second World Assembly on Ageing. Madrid, Spain 11th April 2002. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, ...

Twenty years ago, the Second World Assembly on Ageing adopted the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA). Dr Alexandre Sidorenko, a HelpAge board member and policy expert on ageing who ...

2nd World Assembly on Ageing - April 8-12, 2002, Madrid, Spain IAG had the honour of addressing the plenary session of this historic event. Click here for Past-President Gutman's address to the ...

The plan, adopted on Friday by the Second World Assembly on Ageing, encourages governments and societies to ensure the needs of the elderly are taken into account when developing public policy. It ...

The UN had the foresight to convene a “world assembly on ageing” back in 1982, but that came and went. By 1994 the World Bank had noticed that something big was happening.

The over 1000 NGOs who met in Madrid in April, 2002 at the time of the 2 nd World Assembly on Ageing represented a broad cross-section of civil society, including professional as well as grass-roots ...