Guide
30 Jul 2025
Age Inclusion Handbook (2024) – HelpAge InternationalThe Age Inclusion Handbook is a comprehensive three-part resource designed to support practitioners, partners, and organisations in embedding age inclusion across humanitarian and development programming.Section 1 provides practical technical guidance notes across 13 thematic and operational areas, offering concrete steps to ensure older peopl...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
15 Jul 2025
Alzheimer's Disease International, in collaboration with academics from the London School of Economics, published a commentary in Nature Reviews Neurology urging governments to include dementia in NCD policies and frameworks. This paper reveals striking data, including dementia becoming the 3rd leading cause of death globally by 2040 and among the top 10 causes of death in 166 countries.
Article
03 Jul 2025
Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health.1 With 5 years left to deliver the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, diplomats will be developing a roadmap to get the world as close as possible to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4.1, which is to reduce premature mortality (between the a...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
16 Apr 2025
This paper makes the case for prioritizing self-care as a central pillar of the global NCD response. It explores proven self-care strategies that enhance PHC and UHC, empowering people to take an active role in their health. Finally, it outlines three key asks for the 2025 HLM, ensuring self-care is firmly embedded in the next Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health.Download
Report
05 Nov 2024
By 2030, 1.4 billion people will be aged 60 and over. Yet the majority of health and care systems worldwide remain unprepared for population ageing and associated rises in rates non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and disabilities. This is particularly true in low- and middle-income countries where the majority of older people live. Today, millions of older people in these co...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
05 Nov 2024
Older people are the age group most at risk from NCDs, yet all too often they are left behind in policy and practice. HelpAge's 14-page briefing, accompanied by a two-page overview with key messages, considers the intersection of older age with NCDs and disability, and their importance for health systems and societies alike. It outlines the unique challenges facing older people livin...
Publication
27 Sep 2024
This is an article about nutrition during the palliative care period. I think the authors summarize this best, “Within the quintessentially human belief that food is love, we discovered a unique opportunity to offer a family in crisis a few concrete tools with which to honor and affirm their roles and responsibilities as primary caretakers and good parents. By listening and aligning our medical...
Report
13 Sep 2024
This report captured the proceedings of the 2024 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Population Ageing, held in Bali under the theme "Reframing Ageing." It brought together insights from 479 participants across 38 countries, showcasing innovative policies and practices that promoted active ageing, social protection, long-term care, climate resilience, and intergenerational solidarity. The conferen...
Report
30 Jul 2024
This report captures key lessons from HelpAge International’s work between 2023 and 2024, with a special focus on the role of Older People’s Associations (OPAs), intergenerational engagement, and partner-led programming. It highlights achievements, challenges, and strategic insights for strengthening community-based initiatives, promoting healthy ageing, and enhancing inclusive development acr...
Guide
30 May 2024
This practical guide underscores the importance of involving older people and community stakeholders at every stage of designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating initiatives for healthy ageing. It offers a clear framework to map out current contexts, identify barriers to healthy ageing in low- and middle‑income settings, and co-design locally relevant, inclusive interventions. The guide...
Publication
05 Apr 2024
This guide focuses on self-care and healthy lifestyle choices to support us to achieve healthy ageing. This includes our participation in holding our government accountable for its commitments and to be engaged in decision making about health and care services in our community and beyond. This guide is for everyone interested in achieving healthy ageing. We hope it will be useful for people liv...
Publication
05 Apr 2024
Community health volunteer training manual (213 pages) - This manual is to be used by trainers responsible for training community health volunteers. The manual can also be shared with community health volunteers to enable them to return to the content when needed and should also be accompanied with the self-care manual as a job aid. This training mainly focuses on Community health care voluntee...
