Conference Goal and Objectives

The IFA 11^th Global Conference on Ageing entitled ‘Ageing Connects” aims to have a positive impact on age-related policy and practice globally with particular interest in contributing to the dialogue in the Czech Republic and its region of Eastern Europe and the neighbouring region of Central Asia.

Specific conference objectives are:

1. To improve the capacity of delegates to introduce, implement, and advocate for effective, age-related policies and practices in their communities, countries and regions.
2. To influence leaders, including key policy makers, to increase their commitment to gender and age sensitive, evidence-based and human rights-based programs.
3. To serve as an accountability and feedback mechanism for those engaged at various levels on the response to ageing policy.
4. To improve public awareness of the impact of age discrimination and the need for responses to this stigmatization through the media and other means.
5. To improve understanding of the connection between human rights and the productivity and independence of older people.
6. To improve understanding of the relationship between the policy responses to global health, human rights, workplace priorities and development priorities among key stakeholders in these distinct fields.
7. To provide opportunities for multi-stakeholder dialogue in creative solutions to unresolved challenges in research and implementation of specific ageing policies and programmes.