ABSTRACT
The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) was adopted by the Second World Assembly on Ageing held in Madrid from 8 to 12 April 2002 and requires a systematic review of its implementation to evaluate the extent of the plan’s success in improving the well-being and quality of life of older persons. A brief analysis of what happened and is happening in South America and Argentina is described in this chapter. It is mainly oriented towards the status of the current national and regional ageing situations, as well as towards the goals and recommendations of the MIPAA that were implemented in the last 20 years. The chapter reviews the outcomes of the adoption of MIPAA: whether it promoted dignified working and retirement lives within the age group; socially, whether it guaranteed dignified ageing to varied populations in South America; and lastly, whether strategies to meet these objectives were promoted. The chapter also explores what, if any, lessons were learnt during the year and a half of quarantine and pandemic that plagued us, and whether we can use that to draw conclusions and recommendations by which to update or improve on the original plan of Madrid.
