by SAOPF Team | Dec 2, 2016 | Campaigns
How you can help: At Guardian Angels the main focus is on helping the elderly located in their own residential homes. Each town’s committee will decide where they feel is the greater need. Some towns play bingo once a week – but that suits the area. Amongst...
by SAOPF Team | Nov 30, 2016 | Campaigns
Ageways exchanges practical information on ageing and development, particularly good practice developed in the HelpAge. Ageways 84 describes how organisations in Southern Africa have formed national networks to collaborate on research, programmes and advocacy on...
by SAOPF Team | Nov 30, 2016 | Successes
The WHO project “Impact of AIDS on older people in Africa”, was designed to develop a methodology to examine the impact of HIV/AIDS on older caregivers preliminary in four countries in Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania. Starting with a pilot project...
by SAOPF Team | Nov 30, 2016 | Advocacy
Five ways to get involved this 1 Oct 1. Share our social media assets on twitter and Facebook; everything you need is here 2. Watch and share our ageism film (live 29 September) 3. Check out our exposure article (live 1 October) 4. Add your voice to our new message...
by SAOPF Team | Nov 29, 2016 | Successes
Despite the fact that much has been published in the media about the way the elderly in our country are abused, degraded and treated without respect by others, the Africa News Network (ANN7) have taken it upon themselves to further fuel negative stereotypes by...
by SAOPF Team | Nov 26, 2016 | Successes
Tata Mandela, Many of us, as your fellow older persons of South Africa, know first-hand the health realities of old age. When those that are young now get to where we are, they too will understand what it means to have a willing spirit but an ailing body. All that we...
