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October 2007
IAHSA Executive Director Virginia Nuessle participated in the AARP International Event: United States - Germany Dialogue on Long-Term Care. The dialogue convened an elite group of experts and opinion leaders from both the U.S. and Germany for a dialogue to highlight important common challenges and opportunities on key long-term care issues.

December 2007
IAHSA Chair Freek Lapre and Executive Director Virginia Nuessle will attend the National Care Forum 3rd Annual Lecture in London on 5 December 2007.
The lecture will feature Baroness Julia Neuberger, a rabbi, social reformer and member of the House of Lords, where she takes the Liberal Democrat whip. On 29 June 2007, Baroness Neuberger was appointed by the in-coming Prime Minister Gordon Brown as the government's champion of volunteering. Her primary focus on developing volunteerism will begin with the health care sector.
As IAHSA develops the program for the 8th International Conference in London in 2009, we will look for guidance from individuals such as Baroness Neuberger, whose breadth and depth of knowledge is world renowned.

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• OECD health care spend rises to cope with ageing populace
  PARIS: Leading industrialised nations are spending more and more money on health care to cope with ageing populations and a surge in the consumption of medicines, the OECD said Tuesday.



• The tireless advocate
  IRELAND: As an expert in geriatric medicine, Rose Anne Kenny has wide-ranging experiences, but care for the elderly is her passion.



• Nursing home care facing 'big shortfall'
  AUSTRALIA: Australia's nursing home industry faces a A$5.5 billion shortfall over the next 12 years unless the next federal government adopts a new funding approach, a new report has warned.

• International Action on Ageing: Where do we Stand?
  The Keynote Speech of Alexandre Sidorenko, Head, UN Focal Point on Ageing, New York for the World Demographics Association
  2007
  
  The central message of this presentation is: "While the process of population ageing can deservedly be designated revolutionary, policy responses to it have - at best - been evolutionary." The main reason for this is that the world of international ageing is fragmented and its main dimensions - research, policy and local programmes - are evolving in isolation.
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• Care with Dignity: Sweden's Approach to Long-Term Care
  An Essay by Maria Larsson- Minister for Elderly Care and Public Health, Sweden for AARP
  
  Sweden's Minister for Health and Social Affairs, Maria Larsson, describes Sweden's long-term care system and explains why her country must continue to reform the system as innovations are made and attitudes change. Read Essay



• Putting Equality into Practice: What role for positive action?
  A Report for the European Commission Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
  March 2007
  
  "2007 is the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All. During this year, the EU is putting a particular focus on working towards a society that is free from discrimination, where all have real choices regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, ethnic background, religion, age or disability."
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