Alaska Commission on Aging (ACOA)

http://www.alaskaaging.org/

The mission of the Alaska Commission on Aging (ACOA) is to ensure dignity and independence for Alaska’s seniors and to assist them, through programs and services funded by the Commission, to lead useful and meaningful lives.

The Commission is charged with planning, advocacy, grant making and administration, and interagency coordination on senior citizen issues. Grants for local delivery of senior services are funded through the Older Americans Act, the State of Alaska, and the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority.

Social Security Online

Social Security Online–is the official website for the Social Security Administration of the US government. The address is — http://www.ssa.gov

Be careful typing this in your browser (better to copy and paste, maybe). Some look alike sites, socialsecurity.com, are not the Social Security Administration.

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Older People ­ a new power for development

Date: 1 Oct 2003 15:05:15 -0000

International Day of Older Persons

Why a “new power”?

A demographic revolution is underway throughout the world. Today, world-wide, there are around 600 million persons aged 60 years and over; this total will double by 2025 and will reach virtually two billion by 2050 – the vast majority of them in the developing world (see graph) http://www.who.int/hpr/ageing/international_day_en.htm.

In our fast ageing world, older people will increasingly play a critical role – through volunteer work, transmitting experience and knowledge, helping their families with caring responsibilities and increasing their participation in the paid labour force.

Already now, older persons make major contributions to society. For instance, throughout Africa ­and elsewhere – millions of adult AIDS patients are cared for at home by their parents. On their death, orphaned children left behind (currently, 14 million under the age of 15 in African countries alone) are mainly looked after by their grandparents (WHO/NMH/NPH/ALC/02.12) http://www.who.int/hpr/ageing/zimaidsreport.pdf.

It is not only in developing countries that older persons’ role in development is critical. In Spain for example, caring for dependent and sick individuals (of all ages) is mostly done by older people (particularly older women); the average number of minutes per day spent in providing such care increases exponentially with the carers’ age: 201 minutes if the carer is in the age group 65-74 and 318 minutes if aged 75-84 – compared to only 50 minutes if the carer is in the age group 30-49 (Durán H, Fundación BBVA, 2002).

Such contributions to development can only be ensured if older persons enjoy adequate levels of health, for which appropriate policies need to be in place. In line with the Madrid International Plan of Action, the World Health Organization launched in 2002 a document “Active Ageing – A Policy Framework”, outlining its approaches and perspectives for healthy ageing throughout the life course.

“Ageing is a development issue. Healthy older persons are a resource for their families, their communities and the economy”

WHO Brasilia declaration on healthy ageing, 1996.

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Federal Register of notices related to “older”

Search the Federal Register of notices for items related to “older” (i.e., older Americans, a.k.a. senior citizens)

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

or try the new Google search engine for Uncle Sam http://www.google.com/unclesam

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Publications List from National Institute on Aging

You can get a list of all their stuff just by leaving the search box empty, too. Visit here http://www.nia.nih.gov/data/pubsearch.asp