Twenty years ago, the Second World Assembly on Ageing adopted the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA). Dr Alexandre Sidorenko, a HelpAge board member, senior advisor to the European Centre and policy expert on ageing who coordinated the Second World Assembly on Ageing, where the MIPAA was drafted, looks back on what progress, if any, has been made. He ends with personal reflections on the war declared against his home country, Ukraine, and how a society that works for all ages will be forever jeopardised when nationalism and populism prevail. Read the blog entry & Q&A.
