How societies can ensure that the additional years gained translate into healthy, productive, dignified and equitable lives for all?
This year's commemoration, The Age of Longevity: Rethinking Systems for Longer Lives , invites Governments, civil society, the private sector, researchers and older persons themselves to examine how societies can ensure that the additional years gained translate into healthy, productive, dignified and equitable lives for all. The event in New York is sponsored by The Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations. Organized by United Nations Department of Economic andSocial Affairs Programme on Ageing in partnership with the NGO Committee on Ageing in NewYork . The event will include a keynote address followed by a moderated, interactive panel discussion. Time will be reserved for interactive dialogue with participants. The commemoration aims to: • Examine how longer lives are reshaping health, social and economic realities over time , including the need for health systems, labour markets, social protection frameworks and public financing arrangements that are bette...
