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This week, 3-18 June, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conference (CSC) brings together 300 of the world’s most promising emerging leaders from business, government, labour, and the community sector together in Canada. The first Commonwealth Study Conference was held in the United Kingdom in 1956. It was, in the words of its founder, HRH The Duke […]

On Saturday 20 May 2023, The Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, and Health Ministers from across the Commonwealth met in Geneva, to forge a path forward on accelerating efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), during the 35th Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting (CHMM). During the meeting, Ministers discussed the role of Primary Health

Prior to our existence, several international organisations that promote service development and best practice in care and support for older people already existed, but they are generally based in countries with more developed economies and social conditions. There was no organisation which had an established presence or had been able to build substantial relationships in

At the end of 2022, we said a fond farewell to our founding director and CEO Klaus Zimmermann, and Board director, Samantha Bowen. With well over 30 years of experience in the aged care sector, Klaus has been on the CommonAge journey since the was first discussed in 2013. He began working in aged care

In March 2013, our Founder and Chair, Andrew Larpent commenced a week of immersion in the challenges and opportunities facing communities from Commonwealth countries living in the UK, following his offer of a place on the Commonwealth Study Conferences Leaders (CSC Leaders) programme. This was a programme for Commonwealth leaders that ran between 2013 and 2019. It

Applications for this bursary is now closed, and we will be announcing successful recipients shortly We are inviting applications for travel bursaries for delegates from lower and middle income nations of the Commonwealth to attend the 2023 Global Ageing Network’s (GAN) biennial conference, Glasgow, Scotland 7 – 8 September 2023 with a pre-conference CommonAge meeting on 6 September

This thought leadership article by CommonAge Board Director Dan Levitt was first published in The Vancouver Sun Op Ed January 25 2023 Opinion: We need more housing options for seniors in established neighbourhoods that are too often out of reach for older persons — forcing them to live far afield from where they grew up, raised their families

Kenya is to get its first private care home thanks to our Ambassador in Kenya, James Mbatia Kinuthia. James, the Founder of SJ Remedial Care Homes has been a pioneer and healthy ageing advocate for over 20 years in Africa’s Social Care Sector, so we were delighted to offer him a our QCS bursary to attend our inaugural

Following two years when much activity was curtailed due to the pandemic, 2022 was a year of significant progress for us. New team members We welcomed Reneta D’Souza, based in India to the team in the position of part-time Executive Assistant. Her administrative support is greatly welcomed, and we acknowledge with thanks the support of

Following the completion of her PhD at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, we are thrilled to learn our Ambassador Blessing Ugochi Echeme-Ojembe, is now Dr. Blessing Ugochi Echeme-Ojembe. As one of our QCS bursary recipients to our inaugural Commonwealth Elders Forum in 2018, Blessing’s interest focuses on addressing the taken-for-granted assumptions and marginalisation that older adults across their life course