China National Committee on Aging

I feel old, Starbuck, and bowed.

So there's something about aging that's kind of universal.

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

(c) Technical material provision of data on national and global targets on ageing.

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

Report of the Secretary General proposals for conducting the review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing

(vi) High level regional review meeting of the implementation of the Shanghai Implementation Strategy 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.

b. Parliamentary documentation report on the Implementation of the Shanghai Implementation Strategy on Ageing (1)

They include the Statute of the Child and Adolescent, the Organic Law for Social Assistance and the National Policy on Ageing.

You see, Achille, here I am 46 years old, and suddenly I start to grow.

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

Closer cooperation will be facilitated between focal points on ageing, within and outside the United Nations system.

Based on the information that has been made available to the Secretariat, 25 Governments have established their national mechanisms on 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)

Contribution to activities of an inter agency meeting on ageing and preparation of reports to the Administrative Committee on Coordination.

quot 26.2 Social integration obtained programmatic expression in the following international instruments related to ageing, disability and youth

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.

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

5 9 4 02 IFHE member participated in the Madrid, Spain, Forum 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.

Substantive support will be provided on request to national action aimed at further implementing the Plan and organizing technical meetings on selected ageing and development topics.

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.

In this regard, it is necessary to have an established national mechanism on ageing, which would have overall responsibility for the implementation, monitoring and appraisal of national action on ageing.

The principal topics for technical cooperation in the field of ageing include productive ageing and target setting as a major element in implementing strategies and policies related to ageing.

5. Urges the United Nations, Member States and non governmental organizations to support the African Society of Gerontology in developing and implementing a regional programme of activities on ageing

(a) Parliamentary documentation report to the General Assembly (fiftieth session) on the implementation of practical strategies for reaching the global targets on ageing for the year 2001

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.