The session, titled “Demographic change & healthy ageing in the new decade: opportunities & challenges”, is hosted by director of the AAL Programme Klaus Niederlander, and will draw on the European outlook on ageing presented by the European Commission Demographic Change report.
Joining the discussion are two distinguished guest speakers: Dubravka Šuica, the EC’s Vice President and Commissioner for Democracy and Demography, and Claudia Mahler, an independent expert for the United Nations on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons.
The session will discuss two main aspects of the issues taken up in the report: what is the European Commission’s view and strategy for an ageing Europe? And, on the other hand, why are older adults chronically still invisible despite the Covid-19 pandemic? The session will be closed with a Q&A with the public.