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International Year of Older Persons 1999
United Nations, Department
of Economicand Social Affairs Secretariat,
Room DC2-1358, 2 UN Plaza, New
York NY 10017
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/iyop/
Publications:
Countdown to 1999: The International Year of Older
Persons: Newsletter of the UN programme on ageing: UN Secretariat for the International Year of Older Persons, 1999 .
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/iyop/iyopcd09.htm
Conceptual framework of a programme for the preparation and
observance of the International Year of Older Persons in 1999: report of the
Secretary-General . 1995.
UN document number: A/50/114.
National
Library of Australia call number:
Sq 341 INT A/50/114
[gopher://gopher.un.org:70/00/sec/dpcsd/dspd/iyop/a50-114.en]
Implementation of the International Plan of Action on Ageing and
related activities . 1991.
Includes text of United Nations Principles
for Older Persons.(UN General Assembly resolution 46/91). UN documentnumber
A/RES/46/91. In Resolutions and decisions adoptedby the General
Assembly during its 46th session. Vol. l. pp.160-162. (General Assembly
official records. 46th session. Supp. No. 49. UN document number A/46/49)
Sq 341.133 UNI
A/46/49
[gopher://gopher.un.org:70/00/ga/recs/46/91]
Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Research report of the Community Consultations, is at http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/ageing-publicat-commcons.htm-copy2
Founded in 1973, the International Federation on Ageing serves as a
universal link among more than 100 non-government associations representing or
serving older persons at the grassroots level in some 50 nations around the
world. It also links individuals with interests in ageing issues.
http://www.ifa-fiv.org/
Publications:
IFA Declaration on the rights and responsibilities
of older persons .
http://www.ifa-fiv.org/en/accueil1.aspx?sortcode=2.7
Ageing international. ISSN 0163-5158.
Indexed in: Current
index to journals in education (ISSN 0011-3565); Abstracts in social
gerontology (ISSN1047-4862) (formerly: Current literature on aging);
Family index (ISSN 1089-6147); World bibliography of social
security (ISSN 0006-1476).
Vol. 621 (19791994) held in the
National Library at S
618.97005 AGE
Department of Health and Aged Care
Aged and Aged Care
Division
Penrhyn House C Block, Bowes St,
Phillip ACT 2606
http://www.ageing.health.gov.au/
Annual report. (ISSN 1323-0093)
N 614.0994 AUS
[http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/publicat-annualreports.htm]
Also published as a Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper
Nq 328.94 AUS
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health Care and Services Division,
Aged Care Unit
MLC Tower, Keltie Street, Woden ACT 2606
http://www.dva.gov.au/
Annual report. (ISSN 1030-5351)
Nq 355.1150994 AUS
http://www.dva.gov.au/media/aboutus/annrep05/index.htm
Also published as a Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Nq 328.94 AUS
Department of Health and Community Care
Aged and Disability
Policy Unit
Level 2, North Building, London Circuit, Canberra City ACT
2601
http://www.health.act.gov.au/
Annual report. (ISSN 1325-9180) N 354.9470077 CAP
Ageing and Disability Department
Includes the New South Wales
Committee on Ageing, a ministerial advisory body, and the Ageing Issues
Directorate (AID), which provides strategic policy and planning advice on
ageing and aged care across the New South Wales Government, coordination of
CommonwealthState relations on ageing and aged care, management and
coordination of New South Wales government action on the International Year of
Older Persons in 1999, implementation of projects funded under the Aged Care
Policy Framework, and management and coordination of the New South Wales
Healthy Ageing Framework.
Level 13, 83 Clarence Street, Sydney NSW 2000
http://www.add.nsw.gov.au/
Annual report. (ISSN 1324-9924) Nq 354.94406846 NEW
Territory Health Services
87 Mitchell Street, Darwin NT 0811
http://www.nt.gov.au/nths/
Annual report. (ISSN 1327-6301) N 354.94290677 NOR
Department of Families, Youth and Community Care
Office of
Ageing
111 George Street, Brisbane Qld 4000
http://www.families.qld.gov.au/
Annual report. Nq 362.709943 QUE
Department for Families and Communities
Office for the
Ageing
11 Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide SA 5000
http://www.familiesandcommunities.sa.gov.au/Default.aspx?tabid=46
Annual report. (ISSN 0817-2706)
Nq 354.94008386
SOU
Also published as a South Australian Parliamentary Paper
Nq328.942 SOU
Department of Health and Human Services
34 Davey Street,
Hobart Tas 7000
http://www.dchs.tas.gov.au/
Annual report. (ISSN 1321-344X) Nq 354.9460077 TAS
Department of Human Services
Aged, Community and Mental Health
Division
555 Collins Street, Melbourne Vic 3000
http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/
Annual report. (ISSN 1321-1471) N 362.9945 VIC
Department of Family and Children's Services
Office of Seniors
Interests
4th Floor, May Holman Centre, 32 St Georges Terrace, Perth
WA 6000
http://www.osi.wa.gov.au/
Annual report. Nq 353.53709941 WES
The national peak body of not-for-profit church, charitable and
community providers of aged care services.
Level One, 36 Albert Road, South
Melbourne Vic 3205
http://www.agedcare.org.au/
The Australian association for research on ageing, networking,
education, and policy development.
191 Royal Parade, Parkville Vic 3052
http://www.cas.flinders.edu.au/aag/
AAG national. (ISSN 1327-3620) N 612.67 AUS
The aim of Australian Coalition '99 is to bring together non-government
and corporate sectors as well as individuals in the community to work towards
attaining the United Nations Principles on Ageing.
Level 2, 3 Bowen
Crescent, Melbourne Vic 3004
http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~ac99/
National update-summary. Nq 362.6099405 NAT
An independent statutory authority which originated in the
Australian Family Law Act 1975. The Institute was established by the
Commonwealth Government in February 1980 to promote the identification and
understanding of factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia.
It is located within the Department of Family and Community Services and
reports to the Minister for Family and Community Services.
http://www.aifs.org.au/
Annual report. (ISSN 0819-2588)
N 354.940081 AUS
Also published as a Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper
Nq 328.94 AUS
An independent health and welfare statistics and information agency in
the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services portfolio and
established as a statutory authority in 1987.
http://www.aihw.gov.au/
Annual report. (ISSN 1321-4985)
N 354.94007766 AUS
Australia's health: the ... biennial report. (ISSN 1032-6138)
N 614.0994 AUS
Australia's welfare: services and assistance . (ISSN 1321-1455)
N 362.994 AUS
These titles are also published in the Commonwealth Parliamentary
Paper series Nq 328.94
AUS and on the AIHW Internet site.
Level 6, 824 Kippax Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Formerly Australian Geriatrics Society. A society of medical
practitioners engaged in the practice of geriatric medicine or related
disciplines.
145 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000
http://www.asgm.org.au/
ASGM Newsletter. [http://www.asgm.org.au/news.htm]
The Conference for Older Australians was a committee appointed by
Federal Cabinet and responsible to the Minister for Aged Care. One of the major
responsibilities of the Conference was to advise the Federal Government on ways
in which Australians could celebrate and promote the International Year of Older
Persons.
Interim report. (1998)
N 305.260994 C748
Now archived on Pandora.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/10486
Formerly: Australian Council on the Ageing (19681992), National
Old People's Welfare Council of Australia (19591967).
Level 2, 3 Bowen Crescent Melbourne 3004
http://www.cota.org.au/
Annual report. (ISSN 1320-6613) located at N 362.60994 NAT
254 Greenhill Road, Glenside SA 5065
http://www.cas.flinders.edu.au/
Bundoora Vic 3083
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/aipc/lincoln.htm
(previously National Research Institute of Gerontology and Geriatric
Medicine)
(University of Melbourne/ North West Hospital)
PO Box 31,
Parkville Vic 3052
http://www.mednwh.unimelb.edu.au/
Annual report. [http://www.mednwh.unimelb.edu.au/governance/annual_report.htm]
A not-for-profit organisation with more than 137,000 members aged 50
years and over. The organisation has as its major objectives: to provide
economic benefits, social enhancement, representation to all levels of
government and other decision makers on issues relevant to its members and to
make donations and provide service and advice to charitable institutions
assisting the aging.
235 Edward Street, Brisbane Qld 4000
http://www.nationalseniors.com.au/
Helps seniors use computers to access and share information.
http://www.seniornet.com.au/
A joint centre of the University of Sydney's Department of Medicine and
Concord Repatriation General Hospital, a unit of the Central Sydney Area Health
Service.
Concord Hospital, Hospital Road, Concord NSW 2139
http://www.cera.usyd.edu.au/
c/- U3A ACT, PO Box 73, Hughes ACT 2605
There is no national body,
with State and Territory groups operating autonomously. The U3A ACT Internet
site provides information on the various groups.
http://www.u3acanberra.org.au/
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