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.
Author(s): Marvin Formosa, Mala Kapur Shankardass
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 268
City: London
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Part I Historical and Formative Influences
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
Chapter 2 The Journey to the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
Chapter 3 The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing at 20: Assessing Progress over the Years
Part II International Reviews and Assessments
Chapter 4 The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: Continental and Western Europe 20 Years Later
Chapter 5 Challenges and Opportunities of Ageing in Eastern European Countries
Chapter 6 The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing in the Middle East and North Africa: Successes and Shortcomings
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
Chapter 8 The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: From Signpost towards Implementation in South(ern) Africa
Chapter 9 Population Ageing in Central Asia: Assessing the Progress towards Achieving the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing Recommendations
Chapter 10 The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: Assessing Progress in Eastern Asia
Chapter 11 Ageing and Health in Southeast Asia: Challenges for Policy and Practice
Chapter 12 The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and South Asia: Assessing the Progress
Chapter 13 Ageing Well in Australasia and Oceania: A Region of Extremes
Chapter 14 Accomplishments and Challenges of Two North American Countries to Implement the Recommendations of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
Chapter 15 Ageing and Health in Central America and the Caribbean: Challenges of Design and Implementation of Recommendations in an Unequal and Heterogeneous Context
Chapter 16 Following Up on the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: The South American Experience
Part III Linking the Past, Present and Future
Chapter 17 Epilogue: Two Decades of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: Its Meaning in the Global Context and Ways Forward
Index
