DATE: 17 June 2024 (Monday)
TIME: 14:30–16:00 CEST (Geneva) – find your timezone
On World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) together with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), UNFPA, and UN Women with the support of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) published 'Tackling abuse of older people: Five priorities for the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030)'.
In this online webinar, the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing Secretariat marked the 2024 edition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day by revisiting the five priorities that were outlined in this brief. Together with a multi-stakeholder expert panel, the event explored progress that has been made to advance on these priorities over the last two years.
The event also marked the publication of an online interactive database of 'promising interventions' to reduce and address the abuse of older people, which is the first product of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing's intervention accelerator to prevent abuse of older people project.
Programme:
- Welcome: Dr Etienne Krug, Director – Department of Social Determinants of Health, WHO and Ms Masumi Ono, Chief of Social Inclusion and Participation Branch, UN DESA
- Overview of priorities to address abuse of older people: Dr Christopher Mikton, Technical Officer, WHO
- Combat ageism: Ms Helena Herklots, Older People's Commission for Wales, United Kingdom
- Generate more and better data on prevalence and on risk and protective factors: Dr Fadzilah Mohd Mydin, University of Malaya, Malaysia; Dr LynnMarie Sardinha, Scientist – Violence against Women, WHO
- Develop and scale up cost–effective solutions: Dr Laura Campo Tena, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Dr George Rouamba, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso
- Raise funds to tackle the issue: Dr Terry Fulmer, President – The John A. Hartford Foundation, United States of America
- Discussion: Dr Claudia Mahler, UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons; Professor Abla Mahlo Sibai, American University of Beirut, Lebanon and INPEA
- Closing: Ms Alana Officer, Unit Head – Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing, WHO