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Ken Bluestone - Policy Adviser, Age International

Ken Bluestone leads Age International’s policy and influencing work. He has spent more than 20 years working for international development NGOs and has covered a wide range of issues from HIV and AIDS to ageing and development.

Healthy ageing is more than the absence of disease

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Africa, Development Debates, Girls & Women, Health, Kenya, Other
Anne lives in Kenya’s Central Province. She is 65 years old and looks after 8 grandchildren and mother-in-law and works as a HIV peer educator. Picture: Phil Moore/Age International.

An astonishing transformation is taking place that has until now been absent from mainstream development thinking: global ageing. Its absence is even more surprising as the evidence makes clear that demographic changes are affecting developing countries the most. Currently about …

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