The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (eBook, PDF)

Global Perspectives
Redaktion: Formosa, Marvin; Shankardass, Mala Kapur

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together global perspectives on the MIPAA and focusses on and assesses the success and failures of governments to implement its recommendations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000836974
• Artikelnr.: 67055946

Autorenporträt

Marvin Formosa is an Associate Professor in gerontology at the Department of Gerontology and Dementia Studies, University of Malta. He holds the posts of Chairperson of the National Commission for Active Ageing (Malta), Rector's Delegate for the University of the Third Age (Malta), and Director of the International Institute on Ageing (United Nations Malta). He has published widely in the field of ageing studies, and his most recent publications include The University of Third Age and Active Ageing (2019) and Ageing and COVID-19: Making sense of a disruptive world (¿uszczy¿ska & Formosa, 2021). Formosa is Malta's Country Team Leader for the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Mala Kapur Shankardass is an academician, researcher, writer and an activist with specialisation in sociology, health social sciences and gerontology. She has recently retired as Professor from University of Delhi, India. She has prestigious assignments to her credit with the United Nations and other international organisations, and has been affiliated with these as an Expert/Consultant and with honorary positions. She is Member of different Committees constituted by a varied Ministries and institutions of Government of India. She has published books, chapters with reputable publishers and has many articles in journals, magazines and newspapers, and is recipient of fellowships and awards for her work on ageing issues.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Foreword by John Rowe & Toni Antonucci
Preface
PART I
HISTORICAL AND FORMATIVE INFLUENCES
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
Marvin Formosa & Mala Kapur Shankardass
Chapter 2: The journey to the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
Alexandre Sidorenko
Chapter 3: The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing at 20:
Assessing
progress over the years
Ann Pawliczko
PART II
INTERNATIONAL REVIEWS AND ASSESSMENTS
Chapter 4: The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing:
Continental and Western Europe twenty years later
Marvin Formosa
Chapter 5: Challenges and opportunities of Ageing in Eastern European
Countries
Alexandre Sidorenko
Chapter 6: The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing in the Middle
East and North Africa: Successes and shortcomings
Abdulrazak Abyad & Sonia Ouali Hammami
Chapter 7:
International Plan of Action on Ageing: Implications for the future
Samuel M. Mwangi & Caroline M. Mutwiri
Chapter 8: The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: From signpost
towards implementation in South(ern) Africa
Jaco Hoffman & Manare Naume Maloba
Chapter 9: Population ageing in Central Asia: Assessing the progress
towards achieving the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
recommendations
Marta Mustafina
Chapter 10:
Du Peng
Chapter 11: Challenges for policy and practice
Jacqueline W. M. Wong
Chapter 12:
Assessing the progress
Mala Kapur Shankardass
Chapter 13: Ageing well in Australasia and Oceania: A region of extremes
David Stevens & Andrew Larpent, with support from Phil Saunders
Chapter 14:
implement the recommendations of the Madrid International Plan of
Action on Ageing
Pamela B. Teaster, Kathryn Ratliff, E. Carlisle Shealy & Vijeth Iyengar
Chapter 15:
design and implementation of recommendations in an unequal and
heterogeneous context
Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo, Carmen García-Peña, Rosa Estela
García-Chanes, Emely Max-Monroy, & Mariana López-Ortega
Chapter 16: Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing:
The South American experience
José R. Jauregui
PART III
LINKING THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Chapter 17: Epilogue: Two decades of Madrid International Plan of Action on
Ageing: Its meaning in the global context and ways forward
Mala Kapur Shankardass & Marvin Formosa
Index