Implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002

Note Statement endorsed and supported by the Non Governmental Organization Committee on Ageing.

Citizens associate the EU with, above all, bureaucratic grayness and technocratic rationality.

Issues of ageing are also essential to actions and programmes for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Almost alone among developing countries, China is aging extraordinarily fast.

The Assembly recognized ageing as a global phenomenon and supported its inclusion in the international development agenda

The implementation of national and regional action plans established in line with the Shanghai Implementation Strategy Regional Implementation Strategy for the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing 2002 and with the Macao Plan of Action on Ageing for Asia and the Pacific 1999 could provide an enabling and supportive environment for ageing.

The Economic Commission for Europe undertook a series of activities to facilitate information exchange on issues and policies related to ageing.

Group of 77 (consultations on the draft resolution on ageing, under agenda item 63)

Any organization that has not provided democratic mechanisms for change and renewal tends to age and become monotonous and ineffective.

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on ageing (Third Committee) (convened by the delegation of Jamaica, on behalf of the Group of 77)

The Millennium Declaration and the subsequent Millennium Development Goals do not specifically address the challenges and opportunities of ageing.

UN Habitat participated in a number of international activities organized on topics related to ageing and older persons.

The present report provides evidence of broad and diverse activities on ageing around the world.

The information centres also ensured television, radio and newspaper coverage of ageing issues in national and local media.

V. Capacity building to integrate older persons in development goals and frameworks through the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing

4. Invites Governments that have not done so to designate focal points for handling follow up of national plans of action on ageing

2. Also takes note of the road map for the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, contained in the report of the Secretary General

So the members of the new government, although not physically old, are politically geriatric.

The Government aims to conduct a study on the situation of older persons in the short term and to elaborate a national policy on ageing in the longer term.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean organizes its work on ageing within the framework of the regional strategy for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action.

However, the new developmental vision of national and international action on ageing promoted in the Plan often remains unclaimed.

ECLAC supports research in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia on participatory methodology in the design and implementation of ageing laws, policies and programmes.

International cooperation for building national capacity to respond to challenges and opportunities of ageing is essential for implementation of the recommendations of the Madrid Plan of Action.

5. Encourages the establishment of institutional linkages at the national level between national machineries for the advancement of women and those governmental entities responsible for the development, implementation and coordination of ageing related policies and programmes

It identifies crucial elements for implementation, including institutional follow up effective organizations of older persons educational, training and research activities on ageing and national data collection and analysis.

Efforts to address the situation of older persons and implement the Madrid Plan of Action in the Russian Federation focus on both ageing specific programmes and mainstreaming efforts.

Similarly important is a commitment by United Nations funds and programmes to ensure integration of issues of ageing in their programmes and projects, including at country level.

Despite a lack of resources and capacity, however, the Community remained committed to successful implementation of the Plan of Action on Ageing, in cooperation with the United Nations.

Guided by the African Union Policy on Ageing of 2002, SADC was committed to protecting the health and well being of older persons and guaranteeing them an enabling environment.

16. Recommends that the institutional linkages between United Nations gender focal points and focal points on ageing be strengthened in order to enhance the integration of the gender aspects of ageing within the system

Recognizing the continuing process of elaboration of the United Nations research agenda on ageing for the twenty first century, which is aimed at providing a background for policy responses to ageing, in particular in developing countries,

The Eastern Mediterranean Office convened a meeting of experts in Bahrain in April 2005 to finalize the regional strategic plan of work on ageing and health for 2006 2015.

In 2003, approximately 604,000 received old age and survivors' benefits, with 104,000 monthly recipients.

The Assembly requested the Director General of WHO, inter alia, to strengthen the Organization's capacity to incorporate work on ageing throughout its activities and programmes at all levels.

Follow up to the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty fourth special session of the General Assembly review of relevant United Nations plans and programmes of action pertaining to the situation of social groups Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002

If it were understood, it could lead to cures for many crippling diseases, both neurological (like Parkinson s and Alzheimer s) and degenerative (including those, like cancer, associated with aging).

The General Assembly may wish to invite Governments to consult and utilize the Research Agenda as a tool for strengthening national capacity on ageing for the implementation, review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action.

The Assembly may also wish to invite intergovernmental and non governmental organizations to consider the Research Agenda as a framework for their research activities related to ageing and implementation of the Madrid Plan.

And what we can do with our biology is going to shape our future and that of our children and that of their children whether we gain control over aging, whether we learn to protect ourselves from Alzheimer's, and heart disease, and cancer.

5. Invites Governments to conduct their ageing related policies through inclusive consultations with relevant stakeholders and social development partners, in the interest of creating national policy ownership and consensus building

Information available to the Secretariat suggests several arenas of national implementation activities, including national capacity building and promotion of institutional follow up to the Madrid Plan ageing specific policy and programmes and mainstreaming efforts.

At United Nations Headquarters, the Non Governmental Organizations Section of the Department of Public Information hosted a half day event organized by the NGO Committee on Ageing in cooperation with the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and attended by some 500 people.

It will contribute another 0.5 million towards the establishment of a special section within the Pavilion devoted to health related issues, more specifically, non communicable diseases (for example, arteriosclerosis, diabetes and other ageing related ailments).

Senegal is now firmly committed to integrating ageing issues in national development programmes, including those aimed at the elimination of poverty, and has drafted a national plan of action on ageing (2005 2009) that is awaiting adoption.