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International Seminar on the Active Ageing Index

International Seminar on the Active Ageing Index

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16 - 17 April 2015
Brussels Belgium

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the European Commission's Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) organised and International Seminar "Building an evidence base for active ageing policies: Active Ageing Index and its potential". The seminar brought together 150 participants including researchers, policymakers and civil society representatives from all around the world. This allowed for rich and active discussions throughout the event.

The seminar started off with the presentation by Francesca Colombo, OECD, highlighting inequalities in ageing experiences both within the current generation and in comparison to future generations. Milorad Kovacevic, UNDP, continued the session explaining the value and advantages of composite measures for policymaking based on the long history of use of the Human Development Index. Asghar Zaidi, Southampton University, presented the overview of the trends in the AAI results over a period 2008-2012. An analytical report on the latest AAI results and the trends is available below.

The seminar was structured around five principal topics - use of AAI for policymaking; subnational adaptation of AAI; comparative analysis of AAI results; methodological aspects of AAI; use of AAI int the non-EU countries and regions. On each topic a workshop was held, where the authors of papers, submitted under a call for papers launched in June 2014 and selected by an Evaluation board, had an opportunity to present and discuss their findings. Presentations given at the seminar are available below.

Fourteen posters were presented during a poster session on 16 April covering all the five above-mentioned topics and going beyond.

Programme

31643 _ Programme _ 370144 _ English _ 773 _ 360646 _ pdf

Active Ageing Index 2014 Analytical Report

31644 _ Active Ageing Index 2014 Analytical Report _ 370145 _ English _ 773 _ 360647 _ pdf

Presentations

31645 _ Keynote addresses - Ageing Unequally, Francesca Colombo, OECD _ 370146 _ English _ 773 _ 360648 _ pdf
31645 _ Keynote addresses - Added value of composite indicators for policymakers, Milorad Kovacevic, Human Development Report Office, UNDP _ 370147 _ English _ 773 _ 360649 _ pdf
31645 _ Keynote addresses - Trends in Active Ageing Index, Asghar Zaidi, University of Southampton _ 370148 _ English _ 773 _ 360650 _ pdf
31645 _ Use of AAI for policymaking - The expected, perceived, and valued social roles of older people: a secondary analysis of European surveys, Lucie Vidovićová, Masaryk University, Brno _ 370151 _ English _ 773 _ 360656 _ pdf
31645 _ Use of AAI for policymaking - Responding to AAI: innovations in active ageing policies in Malta, Marvin Formosa, University of Malta _ 370152 _ English _ 773 _ 360657 _ pdf
31645 _ Use of AAI for policymaking - Population Ageing, the Intergenerational Conflict, and Active Ageing Policies – a multilevel study of 27 European countries, Moritz Hess, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University Mannheim _ 370153 _ English _ 773 _ 360658 _ pdf
31645 _ Use of AAI for policymaking - Are societies with a high value on AAI more age integrated?, Pearl Dykstra, Erasmus University Rotterdam _ 370154 _ English _ 773 _ 360659 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on subnational adaptations of AAI - Active Ageing Index: application to Spanish geographical scales, Vicente Rodríguez, Spanish National Research Council _ 370156 _ English _ 773 _ 360663 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on subnational adaptations of AAI - Active Aging Index in a southern European region (Biscay): main results and potentials for policymaking, Amaia Bacigalupe, University of the Basque Country _ 370157 _ English _ 773 _ 360664 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on subnational adaptations of AAI - Greying Italy across time, space and gender, Luciana Quattrociocchi, Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) _ 370158 _ English _ 773 _ 360665 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on subnational adaptations of AAI - Evaluating socio-economic impact of Age-Friendly Environments, Willeke van Staalduinen, Dutch Centre for Health Assets _ 370159 _ English _ 773 _ 360666 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on comparative papers - Differences in AAI in Eastern European countries. A comparison of Poland and the Czech Republic, Kasia Karpinska, Erasmus University Rotterdam _ 370160 _ English _ 773 _ 360667 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on comparative papers - Ageing in a multicultural Europe: perspectives and challenges, Eralba Cela, Università Politecnica delle Marche _ 370161 _ English _ 773 _ 360669 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on comparative papers - Comparative Analysis of National and Regional Silver Economy Models in European Union, Andrzej Klimczuk, Warsaw School of Economics _ 370163 _ English _ 773 _ 360671 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on comparative papers - Estimating weights for AAI from stated preferences: proposal for a Discrete Choice Experiment, Christian Ernst Heinrich Boehler, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies _ 370165 _ English _ 773 _ 360672 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on methodological papers - Well-being differences in old-age in Europe: the Active Ageing Index by cohorts, Javier Olivera, University of Luxembourg _ 370166 _ English _ 773 _ 360673 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on methodological papers - Active Ageing Typologies: A Latent Class Analysis of the Older Europeans, Bruno Arpino, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona _ 370167 _ English _ 773 _ 360674 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on methodological papers - How relevant is Active Ageing? Evidence from Portugal, Sara Valente de Almeida, Centre for European Policy Research (CEPS)/ NOVA Health Care Initiative _ 370168 _ English _ 773 _ 360675 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on methodological papers - Study on active ageing at individual level based on AAI, Sara Marsillas, University of Santiago de Compostela _ 370169 _ English _ 773 _ 360676 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on use of AAI in NON-EU countries - Active Ageing and Policy Implications in China, Qian Xiong, Texas A&M University _ 370170 _ English _ 773 _ 360678 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on use of AAI in NON-EU countries - Arctic region and main domains of AAI in Russia: from global to regional perspective, Elena Golubeva, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk _ 370172 _ English _ 773 _ 360679 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on use of AAI in NON-EU countries - AAI as an Evidence Base for Developing a Comprehensive Active Ageing Policy in Russia, Maria Varlamova, Higher School of Economics, Moscow _ 370174 _ English _ 773 _ 360681 _ pdf
31645 _ Workshop on use of AAI in NON-EU countries - Active Ageing Index in India - Is the UNECE approach applicable to Developing Countries?, Suchandrima Chakraborty, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai _ 370175 _ English _ 773 _ 360682 _ pdf

Posters

31646 _ A two-step multivariate I-distance approach for evaluation of Active Ageing Index, Ivana Djurovic _ 370178 _ English _ 773 _ 360685 _ pdf
31646 _ The Active Ageing Index and Its Relation to the Quality of Life of Older Adults, Marcela Petrová Kafková _ 370179 _ English _ 773 _ 360686 _ pdf
31646 _ Strengthening the AAI multidimensional approach: an assessment proposal, Lepori Mélanie _ 370180 _ English _ 773 _ 360687 _ pdf
31646 _ (Re)Building the concept of active aging by lifelong learning experiences: mapping the role of the university social responsibility in AAI dissemination, Cláudia Teixeira Gomes _ 370181 _ English _ 773 _ 360688 _ pdf
31646 _ Challenges for further implementations of AAI in rural communities, in the northernmost Europe, Tarja Tapio _ 370184 _ English _ 773 _ 360691 _ pdf
31646 _ Complementing AAI on the Organizational Level: An Organizational Index for Work in Retirement Age (Silver Work Index), Anne Marit Wöhrmann, (Presented by Jürgen Deller) _ 370185 _ English _ 773 _ 360692 _ pdf
31646 _ Living together with own adult children: does it contribute to the active ageing of Georgian elderly people?, Irina Badurashvili _ 370186 _ English _ 773 _ 360696 _ pdf
31646 _ Comparing the employment domain of the AAI index in Germany and Hungary, and identifying possible explanatory factors within retirement rules and policy, Éva Berde _ 370187 _ English _ 773 _ 360697 _ pdf
31646 _ Enforcing the Active Ageing Index in Italian regions: methodological challenges and comparative results from the ‘Active Ageing Going Local’ project, Angela Genova (Presented by Robert Anderson — a poster session convener) _ 370188 _ English _ 773 _ 360700 _ png
31646 _ Measuring the AAI in the Basque Country (Spain), E. Barrio _ 370190 _ English _ 773 _ 360701 _ pdf
31646 _ Quality of Life of the Elderly and Analysis of the Applicability of Active Aging Index to Latin American Countries, Fanta Javiera _ 370191 _ English _ 773 _ 360702 _ png
31646 _ Active Aging Index: Russian Study, Elena A. Frolova (Presented by Veronika Malanina) _ 370192 _ English _ 773 _ 360703 _ pdf
31646 _ Germany and Austria vs. Greece and Cyprus: Comparing the “North” with the “South” in a Case-Study concerning Active Ageing, Basile Spyropoulos _ 370193 _ English _ 773 _ 360705 _ pdf
31646 _ Health Literacy as a Potential Indicator for the Active Ageing Index: a Conceptual Analysis, Burcu Ozdemir _ 370194 _ English _ 773 _ 360706 _ pdf
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