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Entries by Jaco Hoffman
(7 entries)


Age(ing) and Afrofuturism

I am currently involved in a proposed project on Age(ing) at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, Germany to open in October 2018 for 11 months. ‘Age(ing)’ will be explored in all its ...


Three stimuli during 2017

Towards the end of this year (2017), I wish to reflect on three exceptional moments of academic impetus: Impetus 1: Turning against our future selves...(?!) Age is the only category of discri...


Long-term care needs for older persons and the youth bulge in sub-Saharan Africa: an interface with potential for growth ... (!?)

In the May 2017 newsletter of Ron Smith  Care Centre operated by the Rand Aid Association, a registered non-profit organisation offering a continuum of care to older persons in Johannesburg So...


Eighty two years of age and another sixty three to go – imagine it....(!?)

Around my mother-in-law’s 82nd birthday a few months ago, the media reported on the age of Mbah Gotho of Indonesia, reportedly born on 31 December 1870 and a full 145 years of age. It was qui...


Long-term care systems for sub-Saharan Africa*

The international debate on the challenges of integrated long-term care (LTC) provision for older persons is not only an agenda point for the ageing developed populations of the world but also an a...


Resilience beyond ‘Keep Calm and Carry on’…?

Increasingly, over the past months starting in May 2015 at a Rockefeller Foundation Think Tank Session in Bellagio on ‘Redefining Resiliency and Ageing’, I found resilience and the mann...


Intergenerational Contact Zones: What and Why?

Those who study the health and wellbeing of older adults emphasize the importance of having opportunities to remain active, civically engaged, and socially connected with others – across gene...