International Longevity Centre Global Alliance

Protecting the human rights of older persons: Challenges to the human rights of older people during and after COVID-19

15th January 2022

Globally, COVID-19 has led to debilitating effects and posed significant human rights challenges for older persons.

Integrating health and social care from an international perspective

17th January 2012

An ILC-UK report examining the ideas, issues and challenges of the integration of health and social care services.

Non-Communicable Diseases in an Ageing World

7th July 2011

This report highlights the omission of ageing and of Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias from the current focus of the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases, taking place on 19th and 20th September 2011.

National Care Fund Working Groups Report

31st July 2009

This report summarises the discussions of two working groups convened by the ILC-UK to explore the ‘National Care Fund’ model, originally set out in the February 2008 ILC-UK publication: “A National Care Fund for Long-term Care.”

Evaluation of a Project to Prevent and Treat Elder Abuse and Neglect in the Urban Sector

31st May 2009

The study examined a groundbreaking program designed to reduce elder abuse and neglect.

Innovations in Housing and Care Schemes –Pioneering Citizen’s Initiatives

31st May 2009

The preliminary study into Innovative housing and care schemes has been conducted by Jacques Allegro (member of the Executive Board of ILC NL) and Ger Tielen (Director of ILC NL).

Lessons on Aging from Three Nations: The Art of Aging Well (Volume1) and The Art of Caring for Older Adults (Volume2)

31st January 2009

The books examine positive aspects of and successful adaptations to aging and focus on challenges and concerns for families, policy makers, and governments in caregiving and end-of-life issues.

Caring in the Older Population

31st January 2009

In 2008 ILC-UK and the National Centre for Social Research published research on older carers, in a report titled ‘Living and Caring? An Investigation into the Experiences of Older Carers.

A Continued Survey on a Daily Life of Older People

30th December 2008

In a super-aging society Japan it is predicted that people aged 75 or older living alone and elderly couple-only households will go on increasing.

Driving, Cessation of Driving and Well-being in Old Age

30th September 2008

ILC-Israel study on older drivers.

The major causes of functional dependency -F.Forett- (Chap 5 – “The major causes of functional dependency” p 139-148- in the book “Prevention of functional dependency”- Publisher : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincopt, Williams & Wilkins)

31st August 2008

Françoise Forette, CEO of ILC-France, explores the concept of functional dependency and its link with the increase of longevity.

A National Care Fund for Long-term Care

28th February 2008

This discussion paper puts forward a radical new vision for funding older people’s long-term care – one of the UK's biggest public policy challenges.

ILC-USA 2007 Annual Report: Who Cares?

31st January 2008

ILC-USA Annual Report, 2007.

Developing National In-Home Caregiver Training Standards

30th December 2007

The Caregiving Project for Older Americans, gathered a blue-ribbon panel of experts in ageing and caregiving to examine existing caregiver training programs and explore the development of national training standards.