The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing

Global Perspectives
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-29263-2
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st century. It focuses on three priority areas: older persons and development; advancing health and well-being into old age; and ensuring enabling and supportive environments. This book brings together global perspectives on the MIPAA and focusses on and assesses the success and failures of governments to implement its recommendations.

Despite its pivotal importance in international ageing policy, the MIPAA has been relatively neglected by academics in their writings and studies. This book mitigates this analytical and empirical cavity. Each chapter focuses on one specific geographical region and addresses five key themes: national ageing situation; twenty years of MIPAA; ensuring ageing with dignity; healthy and active ageing in a sustainable world; and priorities for the future. It presents an overall summary of the findings, future challenges and opportunities related to ageing, recommendations for future actions to be taken, and policy adjustments needed. The authors also present lessons that were learnt from managing the impact of COVID-19 on older people, together with an outlook on the most immediate priorities for the future so that the recommendations in the MIPAA are achieved in post-COVID-19 and sustainable ethical scenarios.

An important contribution towards the advancement of ageing policy, the book will be indispensable to students and researchers of gerontology, ageing, and health. It will also be of interest to policy makers, geriatricians, dementia care specialists, social policy makers responsible for ensuring active and healthy ageing, and all public sector departments which have specific responsibilities towards improving the quality of life of older adults.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Formosa, Marvin

Shankardass, Mala Kapur

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Altenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: Ageing in Eastern and Central Africa in the two decades of the Madrid

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: The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: Assessing progress in Eastern Asia

Du Peng



Chapter 11: Ageing and health in Southeast Asia: Challenges for policy and practice

Jacqueline W. M. Wong



Chapter 12: The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and South Asia:

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: Accomplishments and challenges of two North American countries to

implement the recommendations of the Madrid International Plan of

Action on Ageing

Pamela B. Teaster, Kathryn Ratliff, E. Carlisle Shealy & Vijeth Iyengar



Chapter 15: Ageing and health in Central America and the Caribbean: Challenges of

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: Following up on the 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

Über Autor(innen)

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 (Luszczynska & 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.