Publications

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Older People’s Associations: a briefing on their impact, sustainability and replicability

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Category: Research Reports APPRA - Asia-Pacific Research Network on Ageing

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Older People’s Associations: a briefing on their impact, sustainability and replicability

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The purpose of this briefing is to make the case for multifunctional older people’s associations (OPA) as an approach for inclusive, sustainable community development that actively engages the growing population of people over 60 as agents of change rather than passive beneficiaries in their own lives and communities. The evidence for the briefing is taken from the multi-country study Older People’s Associations in East and Southeast Asia (forthcoming) conducted by the Oxford Institute on Population Ageing with Age International, the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific and HelpAge International; the longitudinal study Assessing Results of UNFPA’s Piloted Community-Based Model on Care for Older Persons in Ben Tre and Hai Duong Provinces conducted on behalf of UNFPA by the Development and Policies Research Center (2015); and project evaluations and experience gathered from more than 1,700 OPAs in 11 countries in Asia established in the past 15 years.

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