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Also encourages Member States to overcome obstacles to the
implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action by devising strategies that take into
account the entirety of the human life-course and foster intergenerational solidarity
in order to increase the likelihood of greater success in the years ahead;
Further encourages Member States to place particular emphasis on
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choosing national priorities that are realistic, feasible and have the greatest
likelihood of being achieved in the years ahead and to develop targets and indicators
to measure progress in the implementation process;
Recommends that Member States increase awareness-raising of the
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Madrid Plan of Action, including by strengthening networks of national focal points
on ageing, working with the regional commissions and enlisting the help of the
Department of Public Information of the Secretariat to seek increased attention to
ageing issues;
Encourages Governments that have not done so to designate focal points
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for handling follow-up of national plans of action on ageing;
Invites Governments to conduct their ageing-related policies through
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inclusive and participatory consultations with relevant stakeholders and social
development partners, in the interest of developing effective policies creating
national policy ownership and consensus-building;
Calls upon Governments to ensure, as appropriate, conditions that enable
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families and communities to provide care and protection to persons as they age and
to evaluate improvement in the health status of older persons, including on a
gender-specific basis, and to reduce disability and mortality;
Encourages Governments to continue their efforts to implement the
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Madrid Plan of Action and to mainstream the concerns of older persons into their
policy agendas, bearing in mind the crucial importance of family intergenerational
interdependence, solidarity and reciprocity for social development and the
realization of all human rights for older persons, and to prevent age discrimination
and provide social integration;
10. Invites Member States to ensure that older persons have access to
information about their rights so as to enable them to participate fully and justly in
their societies and to claim full enjoyment of all human rights;
11. Calls upon Member States to develop their national capacity for
monitoring and enforcing the rights of older persons, in consultation with all sectors
of society, including organizations of older persons through, inter alia, national
institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights where applicable;
12. Also calls upon Member States to strengthen and incorporate a gender
perspective into all policy actions on ageing, as well as to eliminate and address
discrimination on the basis of age and gender, and recommends that Member States
engage with all sectors of society, including women’s groups and organizations of
older persons, in changing negative stereotypes about older persons, in particular
older women, and promote positive images of older persons;
13. Further calls upon Member States to address the well-being and
adequate health care of older persons, as well as any cases of neglect, abuse and
violence against older persons, by designing more effective prevention strategies
and stronger laws and policies to address these problems and their underlying
factors;
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