Total: 413 good practice(s). Download
The Association for Health and Care of Older Persons has established a comprehensive knowledge, training, and advocacy platform to advance healthy ageing, geriatrics, gerontology, and long-term care in Armenia. Through its website and field programmes, the association provides information and guidance for older persons, families, caregivers, social workers, and health professionals. Activities include geriatric workforce development, caregiver training, dissemination of clinical guidelines, dementia care support, community-based care initiatives, healthy longevity promotion, and public awareness campaigns against ageism. The platform also facilitates research exchange, professional education, and policy dialogue on ageing-related issues in Armenia
All people seeking information on healthy ageing, caregiving options, access to training programmes for physicians, etc.
The initiative was developed to address Armenia's growing ageing population and the limited availability of geriatric expertise, age-sensitive healthcare, and caregiver support services. The association has worked to establish geriatrics and gerontology as recognized professional fields in Armenia while promoting evidence-based approaches to healthy ageing and long-term care. Its work includes developing training programmes for physicians, publishing clinical guidance materials, supporting community-based care models, organizing international congresses on geriatrics and gerontology, and facilitating knowledge exchange between Armenia and international partners. The website was created with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Armenia.
This is a good practice because it addresses multiple dimensions of population ageing through an integrated approach combining workforce development, public education, caregiver support, clinical guidance, community care innovation, and policy advocacy.
Kochi Spotlight is an open mic event held twice a month at various parks. It aims to promote social cohesion and strengthen intergenerational bonds. With storytelling, music, poetry, cultural performances and more, this event celebrates the importance of the elderly population in Kochi and tackle ageist stereotypes. This event is also used as a space to share the achievements of elderly people and recognize their contributions to the community.
All participating generations in Kochi
The intergenerational nature of this programme makes it a good practice, by sharing an event, both the young and old can become more acquainted and tackle stereotypes. Additionally, this event is highly replicable in any other setting.
https://extranet.who.int/agefriendlyworld/afp/intergenerational-open-mic-program-kochi-spotlight/
The Korean Longitudinal Study on Ageing is conducted regularly to collect data on the situation of older persons in the Republic of Korea. The purpose of KLoSA is to create the basic data needed to devise and implement effective social, economic policies to address the trends that emerge in the process of population ageing.The data will help identify and observe different dimensions of an aged society, build datasets that enable studies in different fields, and generate data comparable with similar panel studies in other countries (eg. U.S., Europe) that can provide the basis for policy-making and academic studies.
The main beneficiaries are policymakers who will be able to design evidence-based policies through accurate data on an aged society and the situation of older persons. Other beneficiaries are civil society and academia.
The report’s evidence-based assessment marked the first targeted evaluation of health system readiness for ageing populations in the Pacific, helping the Ministry of Health and NCOP pinpoint critical policy, program, and service gaps.
The sampling frame of KLoSA comprises enumeration districts (EDs), as identified by the National Statistical Office’s 2005 Census. Under this frame, Apartment EDs and Ordinary housing (non-apartment) EDs totalled 261,237, excluding island areas and institutions (social welfare facilities). For Wave One, 1,000 sample EDs were selected, with the aim of securing a maximum valid sample size of 10,000 persons, from six households per sample ED. This was decided on the basis of the fact that the average number of household members aged 45 and over was 1.67 in the 2000 Census.
Collecting reliable disaggregated data on ageing is an action area in the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing.
This programme helps seniors who have been abused by their family members but do not wish to get law enforcement involved. It is a model where seniors and family members can meet in a moderated setting to speak and acknowledge the harm they have been through. The aim is to help seniors repair relationship with family members and create formal plans to move forward (Safety and Care Plan) without having to involve law enforcement.
Older persons in New Zealand
92% of participants reported they felt heard and safer than if they had gone through the route of calling police and using criminal justice processes.
This programme was developed through an action-research initiative, aiming to find a solution for victims who do not want to call police on their family. Specially trained mediators implemented this programme alongside social workers.
This programme respects the seniors decisions to keep their family ties intact while at the same time tacking and hopefully ending their abuse. The talking circle tactic is culturally relevant and is highly effective for indigenous communities within New Zealand.
The Law and Action Plan, implemented by the Government of Kyrgyzstan and Office of the Prime Minister, aims to ensure a safe and dignified life for older persons in the Kyrgyz Republic. This plan includes a Financial Plan and a Matrix of Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators. The main focus areas of the plan are: equality and non-discrimination, improved access to quality health services for elderly citizens through improved health care and promotion of active ageing, ensured well-being at all life cycle stages, poverty reduction among older citizens and ensured access to public and minicipal services for older persons.
The primary beneficiaries are older citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic—persons aged 60 and above (women from 58, men from 63 as per national definition)—targeting their social protection, health care access, and inclusion.
The programme expanded community social service delivery: 6,075 people received social services during 2019–2020, including 840 elderly citizens.
Development began with a UN-supported national demographic and needs survey, followed by policy drafting by an inter-agency working group including the National Statistics Committee and Ministry of Social Development; the action plan was then formally adopted via government decree, with mandated reporting, monitoring, and financial plans established.
It is a good practice because it was evidence-based, multi-sectoral, and rights-oriented, with clear monitoring and implementation mechanisms, demonstrating measurable early impact.
This law defines the state policy on older persons. It is aimed at creating conditions for older persons to live full lives, participate in economic and political activities, and fulfill their civic duties. The law establishes key concepts such as gerontological services, defines older persons (men aged 63 and older, women aged 58 and older), and outlines social services for senior citizens. The law focuses on creating enabling legal and socio-economic conditions and guarantees a dignified life, development, and self-realization of senior citizens, protecting their rights and legitimate interests. Priority areas include improving the quality of health care and social support services, and ensuring access to information and education, employment, sports, and culture. The law enshrines the social rights and guarantees of older persons, including the right to receive social services, various types of social protection such as pensions, social benefits, home care and institutional care, as well as the right to medical care, education, vocational training, and access to cultural events.
Older persons in Kyrgyzstan
The law created a state policy foundation defining older persons, gerontological services, and the responsibilities of the state toward them. This formalized ageing as a public policy area and enabled nationwide planning and programme development.
Before 2011, Kyrgyzstan lacked comprehensive age‑specific equality legislation. UN treaty bodies and human rights mechanisms repeatedly recommended creation of a national legal framework addressing rights, social protection, and services for older persons. The 2011 law emerged as the policy instrument intended to fill this gap.
The Law on Older Citizens has produced system‑level results, including the creation of a coherent national ageing policy framework, standardization of eligibility criteria, expansion of social services, integration of ageing concerns across sectoral laws, and alignment with international ageing agendas.
HelpAge: National legal study on ageism and age-based discrimination in Kyrgyzstan
A law on state pension insurance, establishing the legal, economic, and organizational framework for the country’s pension system. It establishes a multi-tiered system depending on profession and ensures regulation, transparency, financial sustainability and social protection for ageing populations. This law creates a comprehensive contributory pension insurance system in Turkmenistan, combining mandatory, professional, and voluntary schemes to protect individuals against old age, disability, and loss of income.
All citizens in the labour force
As part of broader social and economic reforms in the 2000s–early 2010s, the government decided to replace fragmented pension regulation with a single comprehensive law creating a state pension insurance system.
It is a good practice as it provides a legal foundation for comprehensive pension insurance in Turkmenistan. It promotes income security and social protection for all citizens as they reach pension age.
https://ageing-policies.unece.org/browse-policy/3231
The Law of Georgia on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination is aimed at ensuring equal rights and eliminating discrimination in Georgia. The law prohibits all forms of discrimination based on characteristics including age, race, sex and religion.
Based on Article 1, it includes every natural person in Georgia
Since the law’s adoption, the Public Defender (Ombudsperson) has received and processed a growing number of discrimination complaints each year. This reflects increased public awareness and institutional recognition of discrimination. Also, as a result, practical support mechanisms, such as a hotline, were introduced.
The law was issued by the Parliament of Georgia on 2 May 2014
The law prohibits discrimination on grounds of age, and applies to social protection, healthcare, education and services.
Implementation of the Anti-Discrimination Law, Results and Challenges - სამოქალაქო საზოგადოების ფონდი
A legal‑literacy programme for older people combined thematic lectures–seminars on issues such as housing and communal services, consumer rights, various scams, land rights, or how to contact regulatory authorities with printed handouts; a weekly legal clinic offering individual consultations and step‑by‑step guidance an outreach across numerous municipalities in Sverdlovsk Oblast, coordinated with local Social Protection Centers.
Primary beneficiaries were older adults (predominantly 61–80+ years) identified as most vulnerable to rights violations, fraud, and information gaps; social workers also attended sessions to cascade knowledge to clients. Beneficiaries included residents of multiple municipalities.
Within a six‑month reporting period, the team held 26 consultation days (including remote) and provided legal help to 144 people; delivered 9 lectures–seminars on consumer rights to 190 participants, with additional seminar cycles later expanding participation; cumulative 2019 reporting (July–Dec) notes seminars in 12 municipalities with 259 attendees on housing and communal services topics and 66 attendees on consumer rights in December alone.
The NGO prepared accessible educational content (brochures, presentations) tailored to typical rights issues facing older adults; established a weekly reception schedule for the legal clinic (including a remote format during COVID-19 restrictions); and co‑organized venues with municipal social‑protection institutions to reach residents, including those in small or remote settlements. The approach emphasized plain‑language explanations and practical algorithms of action for each case.
The constitution of Azerbaijan guarantees equal rights for all (Article 25). The Azerbaijani State takes care of "improvement of prosperity of all people and each citizen, their social protection and proper living conditions." (Article 16)
It creates legal obligations for the state to guarantee the rights of all and to provide social protection.
