Global Action on Aging

Mission

Global Action on Aging (GAA), based in New York at the United Nations, reports on older people's needs and potential within the global economy. Its mission states the organization "advocates by, with and for older persons worldwide."

Basic Facts

Global Action on Aging, a non-profit organization with special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, was founded in 1994.

GAA carries out research on critical emerging topics and publishes the results on its website. GAA staff and interns research aging policy and programs, both in the US and worldwide: income support, health access, and human rights. Interns post their research daily to our website, [http://www.globalaging.org] , one of the largest in the aging field, with a monthly average of over a million hits.

GAA posts materials in all six UN official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. It monitors United Nation activity on aging through the "Aging Watch at the UN" web-section and documents the situation of older persons caught in armed conflict.

Staff

President: Susanne S. Paul, formerly chaired the Non-Governmental Organizations on Ageing Committee at the UN. Author of many publications including a book titled, Humanity Comes of Age, she writes and speaks widely about challenges to older persons world-wide.

Program Coordinator:Alischa Kugel studied at Schiller International University in London, England, and in Madrid, Spain. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Diplomacy in December 2001.