ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|38 pages
Historical and Formative Influences
chapter 3|12 pages
The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing at 20
part II|184 pages
International Reviews and Assessments
chapter 4|13 pages
The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
chapter 6|12 pages
The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing in the Middle East and North Africa
chapter 7|14 pages
Ageing in Eastern and Central Africa in the Two Decades of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
chapter 8|14 pages
The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
chapter 9|13 pages
Population Ageing in Central Asia
chapter 10|14 pages
The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
chapter 12|12 pages
The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and South Asia
chapter 15|14 pages
Ageing and Health in Central America and the Caribbean
chapter 16|13 pages
Following Up on the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
part III|10 pages
Linking the Past, Present and Future