“Ageing Europe 2019”, released this Friday by Eurostat, predicts that population aging will accelerate more in Portugal than in other countries. The report indicates that in three decades 35.1% of the Portuguese population will be 55 or older. Eurostat published a digital publication called ‘Ageing Europe — Statistics visualised’ that allows people to get a …
The MIA-Portugal (Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing) research project, led by the University of Coimbra, in partnership with the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the University of Groningen and the Pedro Nunes Institute, will receive € 15 million in the scope of the “Teaming” projects of Horizon 2020 for the creation of centers of scientific excellence. …
Discount travel website Alpharooms has crunched the numbers, comparing public transportation, top tourist attractions (Alpharooms studied 15 attractions within each city based on assistance available, adaptive toilets, descriptive tours, wheelchair accessibility and on-site parking) and hotels (Alpharooms studied the top five hotels within each city based on Tripadvisor) in 10 of Europe’s most popular cities to determine how they …
“Where Europe’s Top 10 Cities Rank for Accessibility” (Alpharooms- 6th June 2019) Read More »
“Nearly four thousand elderly people assaulted in three months”. A sad reality reported by Jornal de Notícias. The “Mobi-Age” project itself has already detected this problem during their interviews in the Ateneu day center. As the elderly are those who move more slowly and with less agility, they are easy targets for people with bad …
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The Portuguese Network Healthy, Intelligent and Friendly Environments will hold an INTERNATIONAL + WORKSHOP EVENT on June 28, 2019, at the CCDR Algarve, in Faro. The meeting will be attended by Joan Martin, Executive Director of the Louth County Council (the first friendly city of all ages in Ireland) and President of the European Convention …
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The Best Practice in Active and Healthy Ageing Catalogue is now available online! This document is the collection of the applications submitted to the Best Practice in Active and Healthy Ageing Prize of 2017, an initiative of CCDRC and the Ageing@Coimbra consortium that aims to promote awareness to projects and initiatives of the Centre Region …
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This is one of a set of statistical articles that forms Eurostat’s flagship publication People in the EU: who are we and how do we live?; it presents a range of statistics that cover elderly persons living in the European Union (EU). A paper edition of the publication was released in 2015. In late 2017, …
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The National Republican Guard (GNR) held, throughout March in the entire country, another edition of the “Senior Censuses”, which aims to identify the elderly population living alone and / or isolated, with the objective of updating the records of previous editions and identify new situations. During the operation, a number of awareness-raising actions were also …
