Webinar reflections: “Building back better” for older people in Asia
Last week, HelpAge International Asia Pacific Regional Office, with support from the Asian Development Bank, hosted a webinar titled: ‘“Building back better” in post-pandemic Asia: Back to the future for older people?’. As a...
New report highlights the urgency, viability and positive impacts of social pensions in a rapidly ageing world
By Cherian Mathews, CEO of HelpAge International Around the world, populations are ageing at a pace and nowhere more so than in Asia-Pacific, where, by 2050, one in four people will be over the age of 60. Longer lives undoubtedly are a triumph of development, but these seismic changes also...