Subject: Re: Proposed topics for 2020 Policy Seminar on Ageing, please send us your preference by 17 April
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:31:21 +0000

Hi all

I trust you are keeping well in these
extremely challenging times. On behalf of Ireland I would like to propose
the following ranking;

Older persons in emergency situations–
lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic

Mainstreaming ageing

Ageing in the digital era

Preventing and mitigating inequalities
in old age

Many thanks

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Regards

Karl Duff

Services for Older People

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An Roinn Sláinte

Department of Health

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- 58 Sráid Bhagóid Íochtarach, Baile Átha Cliath, D02 XW14

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Date:
01/04/2020 17:33

Subject:
Proposed topics
for 2020 Policy Seminar on Ageing, please send us your preference by 17
April

Dear members of the Working Group on Ageing,

We hope that our message finds you all
in good health and coping reasonably well with the new work & life
realities brought to us by the Covid-19 pandemic.

As agreed at the WGA meeting in November,
we are sending you today 4 proposed topics for this year’s Policy Seminar
on Ageing to be held on 18 November 2020.

Please let us know your ranking in order
of preference by simple return email at your earliest convenience and
no later than Friday 17 April. The results of this survey will be presented
to the Bureau of the WGA who will decide on the topic for the Policy Seminar
at the (virtual) Bureau meeting on 27-28 April.

Wishing you all the best during this difficult
period.

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UNECE Policy Seminar on Ageing 2020
– Proposed topics

Topic 1: Older persons in emergency
situations– lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic

The region is facing an unprecedented public
health challenge in preventing the spread of the novel Coronavirus Covid-19
and protecting and treating those at highest risk of developing severe
illness and dying from the disease which are older persons and those with
pre-existing medical conditions. The policy seminar can provide a dedicated
space for experience exchange on how member States have been dealing with
the challenges for their older population and what lessons have been learnt
across different action areas including maintaining health and care services
for older persons, protecting older people at home and in residential care,
managing access to essential services during confinement, protecting human
rights, drawing on the expertise of older persons and fostering intergenerational
solidarity. The policy seminar would be informed by Policy Brief No. 25
which will be developed during the summer/autumn of this year. Its focus
on older persons in emergency situations is very timely and will include
the Covid-19 outbreak among other types of emergencies.

Topic 2: Ageing in the digital era

New technology and digital services affect
key areas of every-day lives such as healthcare, social life, leisure,
administrative issues and autonomy. As an increasing number of services
is digitalized, older persons, who may not be familiar with new technologies
and/or may not have access to computers and the Internet and may be excluded,
a challenge generally referred to as a “digital divide”. Through the
current Covid-19 crisis the critical importance (and benefits) of digitalisation
has come to the fore. From one day to the other, entire companies have
shifted to teleworking arrangements necessitating quick learning of digital
tools for remote working, entire populations have had to cut social contacts
and remain confined at home. Online shopping and food delivery, the benefits
of digital communication tools for maintaining social connections illustrate
the importance of overcoming the prevailing digital divide to ensure that
older persons can equally benefit from the opportunities that digitalisation
holds. The policy seminar would inform the policy brief on the same topic
planned for the first half of 2021.

Topic 3: Mainstreaming ageing

At the Working Group Meeting in November,
a full draft of the new guidelines on mainstreaming ageing will be presented
and discussed by the WGA. The Policy Seminar could provide the opportunity
for a one-day in-depth presentation of the new guidelines, the sharing
of nationally developed mainstreaming tools and methods and joint brainstorming
on how these could be introduced and used at national level, preparing
the launch and related capacity-building activities at regional and national
level in 2021.

Topic 4: Preventing and mitigating inequalities
in old age

As the OECD 2017 report on Preventing
ageing unequally has shown, inequalities have an impact on the experience
of ageing and the ability to age actively and healthily. In many societies,
inequalities are growing. What impact will this development have on the
ability of older persons to age with dignity? How can inequalities in old
age be prevented or mitigated? Policy Brief No. 23 on Gender Equality in
Ageing societies has discussed the accumulation of disadvantage from a
gender and life course perspective and can inform the discussions. The
policy seminar could look at inequalities more broadly as well as the intersections
between them (socio-economic, migration background, disability).

Population Unit, Statistical Division

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

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