Human rights are not just for the young, yet many older people’s rights are disregarded or violated by their governments and societies. Drawing on fifteen years of work in more than sixty countries, a new HelpAge International report documents how the rights and needs of older people are neglected, and their contributions to society ignored. Given that the world’s population is ageing rapidly, this neglect amounts to an urgent problem – even more urgent in developing countries where many older people, and older women in particular, live in poverty.