{"id":1326,"date":"2013-10-07T14:36:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:53","slug":"international-day-of-older-persons-celebrated-october-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2013\/10\/07\/international-day-of-older-persons-celebrated-october-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Older Persons celebrated October 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/olderpersonsday\/\"> official website<\/a>\u00a0 which also links to related UN resolutions and reports.<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpage.org\/global-agewatch\/\">HelpAge produced the Global Agewatch index.<\/a>\u00a0 This ranks countries concern for older people in terms of a number of factors: income, health, employment and education, and enabling environment.\u00a0 Find out where the best places for the elderly to live are.<\/p>\n<p>Other useful sites include:I <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iahsa.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">IAHSA &#8211; The Global Ageing Network<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>IAHSA was founded in 1994 as a platform for policymakers, researchers, business and ageing services providers includes news and information on recent research.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/ageing\/en\/\">WHO <\/a>has a number of programmes on ageing.\u00a0 Its website has facts on health and age and a number of full text policy documents and reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpa.org.uk\/ageinfo\/ageinfo2.html\">Ageinfo <\/a>is a great free database\u00a0 from the Centre for Policy on Ageing where you can search for references to articles and reports covering all aspects of ageing.\u00a0 The site also has a directory of related websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the official website\u00a0 which also links to related UN resolutions and reports. On this occasion, HelpAge produced the Global Agewatch index.\u00a0 This ranks countries concern for older people in terms of a number of factors: income, health, employment and education, and enabling environment.\u00a0 Find out where the best places for the elderly to live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[18,111,243],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-ageing","tag-life-course","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}