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Community, Housing, and Infrastructure for All Ages: A “focus area” for the upcoming UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWGA) and a Count-down on OEWGA Final Preparations
2 May @ 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM UTC-5
The NGO Committee on Ageing calls your attention to upcoming event:
Community, Housing, and Infrastructure for All Ages:
A “focus area” for the upcoming UN Open-Ended Working Group
on Ageing (OEWGA) and a Count-down on OEWGA Final Preparations
Thursday, May 2, 2024
1:30-3:00pm. EST
This is a virtual Program. (no registration required)
Click Here to Join the Zoom Meeting
This program will address one of the two “focus areas” of OEWGA 2024—accessibility, infrastructure and habitat—from an age-friendly, intergenerational perspective and how to create better environments and living arrangements for people of all ages. There will also be important updates on final preparations for OEWGA and how you can support our advocacy work for a legally binding international document to protect the human rights of older persons.
Business Meeting
Welcome–William Smith, PhD, Chair, NGO Committee on Ageing/NY
OEWGA Prep–Bethany Brown & Frances Zainoeddin, Co-Chairs, NGO CoA Human Rights
Program: Community, Housing and Infrastructure for People of All Ages
Speakers: Roy Earnest, MSW, Associate Director, Center for Age-Friendly Excellence-CAFÉ
Ilonka Walker, MA, Intergenerational Coordinator, Generations United
Moderator: Sandra Timmermann, EdD, NGO CoA Program Co-Chair; UN Representative, IFA
Summary and Closing: Robin Fenley, PhD, Vice Chair and Chair, NGO CoA Programs