COURTS & HUMAN RIGHTS Court in Salta signs off on 76-year-old’s adoption of 61-year-old 24-09-2024 17:38 Almost six decades on, a family's long-held desire to be recognised in the eyes of the law has been realised.
LITERATURE ‘Ageing scares the young’ – Pacho O’Donnell on the ‘new old age’ 17-09-2024 15:02 Author, historian and thinker brings his best-selling book ‘La nueva vejez’ onto the stage this Sunday (September 22) in a show featuring singer Magdalena León and guitarist Samy Mielgo. In an interview, the 82-year-old reflects about what he has learnt about being elderly and the “new old age.” by Juan Manuel Dominguez
VOTING & DEMOCRACY 104-year-old grandmother wins court battle to protect her vote 07-11-2023 16:00 Berazategui grandmother Fanny Magdalena Córdoba, has voted in every election since 1951, when women first won suffrage in Argentina. Blocked in this year's elections from casting a ballot due to her age, she went to court to ensure she retained her democratic right to vote. by Ariel Stemphelet
CRISIS IN VENEZUELA 'Food for the soul:' caring for elderly left behind in Venezuela exodus 21-02-2023 10:16 The CONVITE NGO is helping to take care of Venezuela's elderly – thousands of them abandoned amid an exodus of younger people seeking better lives elsewhere, with little help from the country's "precarious" elderly care system.