Celebrating our 10th Anniversary at the Global Ageing Network’s biennial conference, 7 and 8 September 2023

We are delighted to announce the winners of our C.A.R.E awards, supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Healthy Ageing Challenge.

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Seven leaders from developing Commonwealth countries to attend the Global Ageing Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 6-8 September 2023 Earlier this year, we launched our UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) bursary scheme to enable leaders in ageing services from developing countries of the Commonwealth to join us in Glasgow at the Global Ageing Conference, 6-8

CommonAge and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) join forces to promote and advance healthy ageing Commonwealth countries are diverse; they are among the world’s biggest, smallest, richest and poorest countries, and of the 8 billion people alive today, 2.5 billion of them live in Commonwealth countries. However, as our Ageing in the Commonwealth report revealed, despite

Challenging, exhilarating, friendly and life changing – these are some of the words used by Rianna Patterson, from Dominica and Sarah Lamba, from Tanzania, who we supported to attend The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conference (CSC), held in Canada, 3-18 June 2023. The conference bought together 300 of the world’s most promising emerging leaders

It is with great pleasure we announce the appointment to our Board of Directors, Nadra Ahmed CBE DL, Co-Chair of the National Care Association (NCA), UK. Nadra has been involved in the field of Social Care for over 40 years. Her background is in training and education, which has been the passion that drives

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,

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

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

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 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

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

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,

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

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

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

We were delighted to be a part of the launch of an exciting new initiative in South Africa to help combat elder abuse and enable elders to enjoy a sense of safety and dignity. On 23 November, The Association for the Aged (Tafta) launched a Toll-free National Elder Abuse Helpline. As well

Our Ambassadors are an integral part in the CommonAge network, and their support is vital to our campaigning. As a recipient of our scholarship fund to enable our professional colleagues from developing countries of the Commonwealth to join us in Perth at the IAHSA/ACSA conference, 30 August – 3 September, 2015, Anderson Simfukwe is our Ambassador

Together with our partner Standard Wise International (SWI), we were delighted to recently host a dinner for Australian and UK aged care sector leaders. The Australian leaders were visiting the UK as part of a SAGE (Studying and Advancing Global Eldercare) tour. The SAGE Study Tour programs offer delegates an educative, professional and culturally