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AGE Platform Europe: MobileAge project releases policy recommendations on co-creation for inclusive digital services

The EU-funded MobileAge project, in which AGE is actively involved, is getting close to an end. During its final conference on 10 October, the project partners presented a first list of outcomes, including a series of policy briefings addressing key issues for inclusive digital services: co-creation tools, digital divide, accessibility, loneliness and social isolation, the GDPR and the access to free services.

AGE Platform Europe: Poverty, social exclusion, loneliness and isolation in old age are all denials of human rights!

On the occasions of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, AGE wished to remind decision-makers about the increasing precariousness and social exclusion of the most disadvantaged and invisible older people, leading to the violation of their right to live in dignity and fully participate in society.