About Margaret Young

Margaret Young founded Age Knowble in 2019. Our social enterprise is dedicated to sharing knowledge, removing barriers and creating strong aging support ecosystems. The Age Knowble platform is a place not just for sharing stories and learning about the older person’s experience, but also for taking this knowledge and using it to remove individual and system boundaries on age and aging. Margaret is optimistic that these boundaries will cease to exist one day. This day is possible when we have alignment between what the individual needs and what the system offers; when we work collaboratively despite competition; and when we treat old age as part of a life course, no different from toddler years, teenage years, or middle age years.

Singing and Dancing for Their Rights

Elder abuse is heart-wrenching. Underscoring the harm and tragic narratives is a violation of the older person’s human right to be freed from violence, abuse, and neglect. A group of courageous and determined older advocates stood up for their rights through song and dance. Violence Against and Abuse and Neglect of Older People One

By |2025-04-23T17:48:38-07:00September 10th, 2024|Categories: Age Exchange, Aging Matters|Tags: , |Comments Off on Singing and Dancing for Their Rights
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The 4th ASEM Forum on the Human Rights of Older Persons: Present and Future

This year’s forum focused on the status of older people's human rights and the role of civil society organizations in advancing and protecting them in the richly diverse Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. The forum’s inclusive exchange between Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), National Human Rights Institution representatives (NHRIs), and

By |2025-04-23T13:23:24-07:00August 30th, 2024|Categories: Age Exchange|Comments Off on The 4th ASEM Forum on the Human Rights of Older Persons: Present and Future
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