22. Mai 2023 – 2:15 pm-4:15 pm; Swiss Red Cross, Rainmattstrasse 12, Bern

Round Table of Medicus Mundi Switzerland

Older people in international health cooperation: Are we ready for demographic change?

Medicus Mundi Switzerland International health cooperation has a very strong focus on younger people and there is a strong, well-founded call to involve the younger generation more in programme development. However, there is also another reality: the population in the Global South is getting older and the older population itself is also getting older.

Older people in international health cooperation: Are we ready for demographic change?
Pension Day in Nshamba. Once every month older people meet at the paypoints to collect their pensions. The amount of 14'000 TZS is not even 7 Euro, but nonetheless substantial: For many pensioners it is 50 percent or more of all the cash they can spend in a month. (Photo: Christoph Gödan / Kwa Wazee)

The MMS Round Table would like to look at whether the actors in international health cooperation are also making their programmes adapted to the needs of older people. And it would like to show which tools, projects and programmes can use to face this trend. An important discussion in the context of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing.

Aims of the Round Table

  1. To raise awareness of demographic change and the role of older people in international health cooperation
  2. Participants discuss approaches to make international health cooperation programmes and projects age friendly.

Date and Time

Monday, 22 May 2023, 2:15 pm – 4:15 pm

Venue

Swiss Red Cross
Rainmattstrasse 12
Bern, Switzerland

Speakers

  • Christopher Mikton (WHO)
  • Alexandra Papis (Swiss Red Cross)
  • René Schraner (Kwa Wazee, tbc)

Programme

Resource: WHO’s work on the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing: https://www.who.int/initiatives/decade-of-healthy-ageing

Organisation: Network Medicus Mundi Switzerland in collaboration mit Kwa Wazee and the Swiss Red Cross.
Coordination: Martin Leschhorn Strebel, Geschäftsführer Medicus Mundi Switzerland
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Phone: 061 383 18 14

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