Train the Trainer - CommonAge Website Our Train the Trainer initiative, 10-21 June 2024 at Tafta in Durban, South Africa, was a collaborative effort between Tafta and CommonAge
10 years of achievements - CommonAge Website 2018 Ageing in the Commonwealth report launched ; With generous sponsorship support from our Founding Members The Abbeyfield Society, Age International, Anchor and St Monica Trust, we commissioned the Oxford University Institute for Population Ageing at Oxford University to undertake a research project on “Ageing in the Commonwealth”
White paper: Ageism in the Commonwealth - CommonAge Website This paper examines how the wellbeing, dignity and voice of older persons have been impacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Commonwealth countries; and how those countries can ensure older people’s rights are respected in a more age-friendly Commonwealth that leaves no one behind
About us - CommonAge Website We are a charitable organisation, advocating to ensure older people are fully recognised in society, and are supported and enabled to live well in an all-age friendly commonwealth We support the view that a healthy ageing population is much less expensive one for governments to support, and therefore is less of a burden on taxpayers and health
Publications - CommonAge Website Ageing Well in the Commonwealth A Roadmap for Healthy Ageing Across the Life Course: 2024–2030 ” This roadmap builds on the g reat work of the World Health Organisation (WHO), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and, in particular, CommonAge, who have led the way as advocates for ensuring that older people in the Commonwealth are fully recognised in society and supported to live well
Datin Jacqueline WM Wong - CommonAge Website In September 2021, Jacqueline supported the first virtual international youth leadership programme: the New Age Learner Virtual Conference: ‘Building The Future with Generation Z’ organised by the youths of Ascendance Project (Malaysia) convened over 50,000 youth and young carers (aged 9 to 25) from over 900 organisations, institutions
John Collyns - CommonAge Website Key stakeholders include the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment, the Retirement Commissioner, the Financial Markets Authority, the Office for Senior Citizens, District Health Boards, Business NZ, statutory supervisors, and consumer advocacy groups such as Age Concern and Grey Power, amongst others
Report: Ageing in the Commonwealth - CommonAge Website Structures for care and support in old age: poverty and income security; Structures for care and support in old age – long term care; Community infrastructure and empowerment for active ageing; It also includes conclusions and questions for further research Click the button below to access the Research Paper
News - CommonAge Website Read the latest news from CommonAge, The Commonwealth Association for the Ageing, working to ensure older people are fully recognised in society, and are supported and enabled to live well in an all-age friendly commonwealth
Dr Renu Varughese - CommonAge Website Dr Renu Abraham Varughese, a prominent clinical gerontologist, accomplished scholar, and educator, is an Associate Professor at Mercy University, New York, USA