Senior Sense
 
Ageing is an issue both for developed and developing countries. In focussing on ageing, gender is a key policy issue. Women live longer and are poorer throughout the course of their lives as compared with men: the cumulative effect of women's life long inferior resource position is that they have highly constrained resources with which to meet the health and economic requirements of older life. The "senior sense" web site seeks to build an information tool kit for communities, development professionals and students and for senior citizen groups in the search for an age equitable society. It is dedicated to the principle of "life long learning" and is part of the UNL Development Management contribution to the 1999 International Year of the Older Person

Paper presented at the International Sociological Association Congress 'Social knowledge: heritage, challenges perspectives', Montreal, July, 1998
 
Lecture delivered at United Nations International Institute of Ageing, Malta and Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana training course on Gerontology Gender & Ageing: a development management perspective, Ghana, July 1998
 
Position paper prepared for the UNFPA technical meeting on Population Ageing, Brussels, October 1998.
 

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Rural Elderly and the Ageing of Rural Populations
 

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American Association of Retired Persons
 

 

 
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