Active Ageing Index 2012 Concept, Methodology and Final Results

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and Evita Sisene (both from Population Unit, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) at various stages of the project had been extremely valuable and are gratefully acknowledged here. Useful contributions of Fritz Von Nordheim (Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission) during the 1st Expert Group meeting and that of representative from the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia during the 2nd Expert Group meeting are also acknowledged. In addition, the work reported benefited from the comments made by Michael Fuchs (during the internal AAI project meetings) and graphs prepared by René Czerny of European Centre Vienna. Editorial comments received from Sean Terry of Oxford Brookes University are also thankfully acknowledged. Asghar Zaidi has been the lead researcher, and he also coordinated the overall AAI project