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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.
Lifelong Learning Centre (L3C), a one‑stop information hub, provides access to lifelong learning programmes, including upskilling and reskilling opportunities for adults. It supports national talent development and encourages a culture of continuous learning.
Adult learners, including jobseekers, employees, and community members
The Centre expanded access to lifelong learning by offering structured programmes, short courses, industry engagement forums, and collaborations with public and private training providers. It strengthened national skills development, supported workforce readiness and increased enrolment in continuous learning programmes.
L3C was developed by the Ministry of Education as part of a strategic initiative to build holistic individuals and an inclusive society. It established policies, frameworks, partnerships and governance mechanisms to ensure high‑quality, industry‑relevant training. The Centre also supports national agencies such as the Manpower Planning Office and the Brunei Employment Centre in aligning learning pathways with workforce needs.
The Centre strengthens lifelong learning culture, expands accessible learning opportunities and enhances employability. Its inclusive approach, partnerships and alignment with national development goals contribute to long‑term community well‑being.
University of the Third Age (U3A) Malaysia is a lifelong learning programme for older persons established in 2007 under the “Lifelong Learning for Older Malaysians” project led by the Institute of Gerontology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, with support from the Government of Malaysia and UNFPA. The programme promotes active and healthy ageing through non-formal education based on the philosophy of “learning for leisure.” It offers a wide range of courses, including healthy lifestyles, languages, computing, arts and crafts, gardening, photography, music and dance. U3A fosters social participation, lifelong learning and community engagement, helping older persons remain active, connected and empowered.
Older persons in Malaysia
The programme has successfully created a vibrant learning community for older persons, fostering social interaction, mental stimulation, and personal growth. It has empowered seniors to acquire new skills, pursue hobbies, and maintain a sense of purpose. U3A Malaysia has become a recognized platform for promoting active ageing and lifelong learning in the country.
U3A Malaysia was developed by the Institute of Gerontology with support from the Government of Malaysia and UNFPA under the 2008–2012 Country Programme. After the success of the LLIFE pilot program, U3A was formalized and registered as the Association for Lifelong Learning of Older Persons in 2010. Activities are primarily hosted at Universiti Putra Malaysia, with administration shared between the Institute and U3A members. Courses are conducted by volunteers and experts, and participation is promoted through community outreach and member-driven planning.
U3A Malaysia promotes lifelong learning, social inclusion, and active ageing among older persons. It provides a flexible, non-formal education model that enhances mental well-being and combats isolation. Its sustainability through member involvement and adaptability to diverse interests makes it replicable and impactful in improving the quality of life for seniors.
The Turkey Lifelong Learning Strategy Document and Action Plan (2014-2018) was launched on May 13, 2014 under the coordination of the Ministry of National Education (MEB), with input from the Ministry of Development and social partners. Building on a prior 2009-2013 strategy, the document established six priority areas with named responsible institutions, partner organizations, timelines, and performance indicators.
Government institutions and organizations responsible for implementing lifelong learning policies and activities.
After having had a dedicated lifelong learning action plan, lifelong learning objectives have been incorporated into broader national education planning documents and Ministry strategies. Ministry of National Education Strategic Plan 2019-2023
The Plan was produced through workshops involving responsible/related institutions and civil society representatives, then submitted for further consultation before being presented to the 26th Vocational Education Council and formally adopted by the Supreme Planning Board. Implementation is structured via the attached Action Plan, which assigns a named responsible institution and collaborating institutions to each measure, sets a timeframe (mostly 2014-2018, continuous), and defines measurable performance indicators; General Directorate of Lifelong Learning holds overall coordination and monitoring responsibility.
The plan developed fully accountable implementation mechanism including of dozens of measures, lead agencies, collaborating bodies, deadline, and quantifiable performance indicators, closing the gap between strategy and execution. It is replicable, since the six-priority structure and measure-level accountability format can be reapplied to future planning cycles or adapted by other countries.
The support allowance, which this statute refers to, consists in a sum of money paid from the State Budget to meet the basic needs of the aged and the disabled living in East Timor. The support allowance cannot be added up to other sums of money paid for social protection from the State Budget to the same beneficiary, which have a permanent nature and whose amount is higher than the amount of that one, whether they arise from the contributory regimes of social security system or from the non-contributory ones. Also defines the criteria involving the allowance grant, its amount and the possibility of this one's revision, the procedure ruling the application supporting documents, the decision and the decision impugnation, as well as the role of the organ in charge for the processing.
All older persons in Timor-Leste as it is a universal pension scheme.
Decree‑Law No. 19/2008 was developed in response to constitutional obligations requiring Timor‑Leste to provide social security and special protection for elderly people and persons with disabilities, grounded in Sections 56, 20, and 21 of the Constitution. Recognizing widespread poverty and the urgent need for targeted assistance, the Fourth Constitutional Government incorporated the establishment of a support allowance into its policy agenda. The drafting process involved extensive inter‑ministerial consultations among the ministries responsible for social protection, health, finance, and state administration to coordinate eligibility verification, medical certification, payment systems, and administrative structures. The decree also underwent detailed technical formulation covering eligibility criteria, benefit levels, application procedures, and appeals mechanisms, culminating in its formal approval by the Government under constitutional authority (Sections 115(j) and 116(d)) to establish a fully operational support allowance scheme.
It provides basic income security to all older persons in Timor-Leste.
The Long-Term Care (LTC) Insurance, implemented by the Government of the Republic of Korea and Ministry of Health and Welfare, is a social insurance scheme for elderly citizens. The scheme provides long-term care benefis to older persons experiencing difficulties with daily routines for six months or longer on account of old age or age-related diseases. The service includes home-based benefits, institution-based benefits and cash benefits when beneficiaries need to care for family members.
Older adults and vulnerable community members, especially seniors enrolled in AI-IoT health management services.
In Uiwang City, AI-IoT health management raised healthy behavior improvement rates to 61.8%; in Taean County, mobile health services achieved 100% satisfaction and 78.1% behavior improvement.
The program combined pre-visit education, training on digital devices, and AI-IoT/mobile platforms. Local health centers designed tailored “home visits + app-based” models to deliver continuous, community-based health monitoring.
It effectively integrates AI-IoT with community health services, producing measurable health gains among seniors — a scalable model of tech-enabled, inclusive care.
