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Message from thefounding members
Back in 1990 our aim was to reframe the way media and public discourse
addressed older people and ageing, to promote the positive aspects ofageing and longevity and support societies across the world to adapt toageing populations.
Our dream was to build an ILC Global Alliance which promoted thepositive contribution older people make in society and the benefits ofpeople living longer, healthier lives.
30 years on, we have grown to 16 member organisations across theworld, each with their own priorities based on the needs in their
particular country, but all sharing a positive view of longevity and doing
research and promoting policy positions which strengthen attitudes andpractice in each of their countries.
There is still much work to be done to end age discrimination and topromote the opportunities of longevity, but we are on the right track.
Our hope for the future is that the ILC Global Alliance continues thisimportant work and grows over the years to maximise the spread of thepositive attitudes they share to the benefit of people of all ages across theworld.

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Message from theCo-Presidents
As the next generation of ILCs inheriting theILC Global Alliance legacy, we are inspired
to follow the footsteps of the founders andaspire to do even more to promote productive
longevity and the wellbeing of older people in
an inclusive society for all ages.
Dr. Rosy Pereyra M.D.

Dr. Mary Ann Tsao, M.D.

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Global Allianceachievements
1990-2020

Moving into the future, we aim to work
towards transforming how the world
experiences ageing and growing thelongevity dividend. Through collaborativeand comparative research as well as effective
advocacy at national and international levels,
we will build upon the ILC GA legacy, so
we too can pass to our next generation theessence of what the founders passed tous in making the world a better place forall generations.

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ILC Global Alliance 30th Anniversary5Five ILC Global Allianceachievements
Representation and Advocacy to the United
Nations Open-Ended Working Group on
Ageing and other UN committees.

Unique among major international NGOs in
its dual focus on research and advocacy. Itsadvocacy is solidly backed by evidence-based
research, conducted by member countries as wellas collaboratively among ILCs. The dual focus
facilitates the incorporation of cutting-edge
scientific and policy knowledge in advocacy and,at the same time, encourages its research tofocus on issues critically affecting society.

Published the ILC GA “Global Aging Report” in
2007, the first compilation of issues surrounding
ageing in different countries.

The steady, progressive extension of its global
presence, relevance, influence and focal areas,
as a huge and dynamic resource with multiple
platforms, in large part through expanded anddiversified membership representing both the
Global North and the Global South.

Involvement in high level political forum with
the Human Rights Council and the World HealthOrganization (WHO).

ILC-Argentina
ILC-China

ILC-Czech Republic

ILC-France

ILC-India

ILC-Netherlands
ILC-UK

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ILC-Australia

ILC-Brazil

ILC-Israel

ILC-Singapore

ILC-Canada

ILC-Dominican Republic
ILC-Japan
ILC-South Africa

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ILC-Netherlands

ILC-UK

Joining date: 2006
President: Prof. Teneke A. Abma

Joining date:1997
President: Baroness Sally Greengross OBE

ILC-Canada
Joining date: 2014
President: Margaret Gillis

ILC-USAILC-France

ILC-Czech Republic

Joining date:1996
President: Jean-Pierre Aquino, M.D.

Joining date: 2009
President: Dr. Iva Holmerova

Joining date:1990
President: Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH

ILC-Japan

ILC-Israel

Joining date: 1990
President: Yasuyuki Takai

Joining date: 2007
President: Sara Carmel, Ph.D, M.P.H.

ILC-Dominican Republic
Joining date: 1998
President: Dr. Rosy Pereyra, M.D.

ILC-China

ILC-India

Joining date: 2011
President: Du Peng, Ph.D.

Joining date: 2004
President: R.A.Mashelkar, Ph.D.

ILC-Singapore
ILC-Brazil

Joining date: 2009
President: Dr. Mary Ann Tsao, M.D.

Joining date: 2011
President: Dr. Alexandre Kalache

Australia
ILC-South Africa

ILC-Argentina

Joining date: 2005
Hon President: Monica Ferreira, MA, DPhil

Joining date: 2005
President: Lia Susana Daichman, M.D8

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Joining date: 2014
President: Prof. Julie Byles

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Championed older human rights,
elder abuse and ageism prevention
by working with and supporting theArgentinean Governmental Delegationon the Inter American Convention for
the Rights of Older Persons and actively
participating at Intergovernmental
Regional Meetings.

Published a monographin 2019, based on
the WHO Strategy
on Healthy Ageing
and the Integrated
Care for Older People:
Permanento TrainingProgramme.

Increased the international presence of ILC Canada at keyinternational organisations, running highly successful side events at
the United Nations Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, chairing
the National Advocacy Working Group at the Global Alliance on
the Rights of Older Persons (GAROP) and acting as civil society
representative at the United Nations Economic Commission for
Europe’s “Mainstreaming Ageing” Taskforce.

Wrote and promoted
the Code of Rightsof Older Dominicans,which was later
enshrined in law.

10Conducted a study on the financial
security of older women in selectedcountries in Southeast Asia and produced
a hardcopy and e-book on the situationof older women in these countries andrecommendations to support themin old age.

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Represented the ILC
Global Alliance at theUnited Nations, theOpen-ended Working
Group on Ageing and
the Global Alliance for
the Rights of Older
Persons (GAROP).

Influenced policy and practice in theUK and across the world, convincing
G20 Health Ministers to promote a life
course approach to the prevention of ill
health, working with local and central
government and pioneering major
initiatives with big and small businesses tohelp them adapt to an ageing society.

Established ILC Canada as a leader in human rights issues forolder people in Canada, including leading national write-in campaigns
on human rights, working with the research community to get
evidence-based human rights policy and utilising social and regular
media for activism and giving speeches/webinars on human rights
and older people.

Developed a mobile
literacy training
programme for seniorcitizens, reaching 1500
senior citizens acrossMaharashtra.

Established a partnership between theUniversity of Cape Town and NorthWest University’s Optentia Research
Focus Area to operate ILC South Africa
at two sites and expand and diversify
ILC SA’s thrusts and programmes.

Successfully developed ahealth prevention tool forcomputers, tablets andsmartphones, which provides key
prevention measures according
to age, sex and identified risk
factors for diseases for which
prevention has shown a benefit.

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Trained over 200 journalists
in the annual Robert N.
Butler-Jack Rosenthal Age
Boom Academy since 2000
on topics ranging from global
ageing to the interplay ofwork, retirement, and health.

11Published ‘Older age atretirement is associated withdecreased risk of dementia’,a research project on theeffect of age at retirement
and the risk of dementia.

Hosted the Robert N Butler
Memorial Lecture in 2019
featuring the work of Professor
Tony Broe and his team from theAboriginal Health and Ageing
Program at Neuroscience ResearchAustralia.

Advocated for the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Manpower
to adopt a matched savings scheme to help Singaporeans, especiallyof lower income and caregivers, to build up their savings.

Engaged senior citizens toimpart morals and values tochildren of underprivileged
schools through non-formalmeans of education, reaching
more than 3000 school
children in Maharashtra.

Received accreditation ofa PhD study programme inLongevity Studies in 2016,
with the first graduates
now completing theprogramme, also supportedby the INDUCT international
programme.

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Presented at the international
symposium “Who cares? - Cross
National Comparison of Care”
held at the 20th International
Conference of Alzheimer’s
Disease International in Kyoto in2004.

Developed and participated in aconsolidated research project onlong-term care in South Africa andsub-Saharan Africa, in collaboration
with the African Union, the WHO
and the African Population HealthResearch Centre among others.

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Developed a free, (online and offline) 8-week course training older
adults in the first phases of start-up development, which has now
been adapted in four different countries.

Become a reference for national media in relation to longevity - ashas been amply demonstrated since the onset of the new coronavirus
pandemic of which, tragically, Brazil has become the epicentre in thedeveloping world.

Leading the “Health of an AgeingSociety” certificate in the Columbia
Mailman School of Public Health
Masters of Public Health programme,
training the next generation of publichealth scientists and policy makers in
how to harness the third demographic
dividend.

Enhanced national
collaboration acrossinstitutions concerning
older people as aconsortium of researchers
and representatives.

Held a 3-day international workshop and conference on “The Futureof Gerontology Education” in cooperation with two Israeli universities,
with 1500 participants and 11 distinguished gerontologists fromaround the world in attendance.

Brought together senior policy and decisionmakers at hundreds ofevents across the world to highlight the importance of longevity from
G20 meetings to 10 Downing Street to the World Health Assembly.

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13Worked with 14 NGOs and grassroots organisations across theDominican Republic to empower
older adults and become a recognised
referent on older citizens by theGovernment.

Produced an
ongoing series ofinternational comparative
studies on productive
aging since 2013.

Developed a successful decentralised
strategy, establishing regional centres infive cities and appointing focal points
in critical thematic areas - such as
race, gender, age-friendly approaches,primary health care and lifelong
learning.

Published more than
50 research articles on
various topics relating
to ageing over the lastyear, with many more
still in progress.

Providing guidance on how to provide and evaluate person-centredcare though a pilot project supported by the Ministry of Health,Welfare and Sport.

ILC-Argentina
ILC-China

ILC-Australia

ILC-Brazil

ILC-Czech Republic

ILC-Canada

ILC-Dominican RepublicContact us
ILC-Argentina

ILC-India

liadaichman@fibertel.com.ar

www.ilcindia.org
longevetic@gmail.com

ILC-Australia
www.aag.asn.au/education/international-longevity-centre-australia-ilc-australia
Julie.byles@newcastle.edu.aujbeckfordsaunders@aag.asn.au

ILC-Brazil
www.ilcbrazil.org
info@ilcbrazil.org

ILC-Canada
ww.ilccanada.org
info@ilccanada.org

ILC-India

ILC-Netherlands
ILC-UK

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ILC-Israel

ILC-Singapore

ILC-Japan
ILC-South Africa

ILC-Japan
www.ilcjapan.org
ilcjapan@mba.sphere.ne.jp

ILC-Netherlands
www.ilcnetherlands.org
info@ilcnetherlands.org

ILC-Singapore

dupeng415@aliyun.com

ILC-Czech Republic

ILC-South Africa

ILC-China

www.cello-ilc.cz
Iva.Holmerova@gerontocentrum.cz
katerina.machacova@yahoo.com

ILC-Dominican Republic
ILC-France
www.ilcfrance.org
info@ilcfrance.org

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cmra@bgu.ac.il

www.tsaofoundation.org/whatwe-do/research-and-collaboration/
about-ilc-singapore
ilcsingapore@tsaofoundation.org

rosy.pereyra@verizon.net.do
ILC-France

ILC-Israel

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www.ilcsa.uct.ac.za
Jaco.Hoffman@nwu.ac.za
sebastiana.kalula@uct.ac.za

ILC-UK
www.ilcuk.org.uk
international@ilcuk.org.uk

ILC-USA
www.aging.columbia.edu/impact/ilc-usa15

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