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The ageing world and humanitarian crisis
— guidelines for best practice | | Corporate Author | HelpAge International |
| Publisher | HelpAge International, [London], November 1999 |
| Pages | 27 pp |
| Source | HelpAge International, 67-74 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8QX. |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Voluntary agencies ; International ; Standards of provision ; Developing countries. |
| Annotation | The stated aim of most humanitarian organisations is to provide emergency relief to whole communities in a crisis, if possible targeting the most vulnerable. This report combines new research from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. It gives examples of key approaches and actions that could help the humanitarian community reduce the vulnerability associated with ageing. The research indicates that agencies' priorities, assumptions and delivery systems can obstruct or exclude vulnerable older people from access to relief. If invisibility, exclusion and powerlessness are common themes emerging from older people's experience, then consultation, inclusion and empowerment through partnership have emerged as the primary indicators of good practice. Older people have consistently asked: to be seen, heard and understood; to have equal access to essential support systems; and to have their potential and contributions recognised, valued and supported. This report outlines some examples of how these principles have been applied in practice. It has subsequently been published as "Older people in disasters and humanitarian crises: guidelines for best practice". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000125007 B |
| Classmark | BG: PK: 72: 583: 7B |
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