This document was prepared by the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE)-Population Division of ECLAC, in its capacity as technical secretariat of the Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean, for the Fifth Conference (Santiago, 13–15 December 2022). During preparation of the document, the technical secretariat was assisted by the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean and received support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

This document was coordinated by Simone Cecchini, Chief of CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC, Zulma Sosa Portillo, Coordinator of the Population and Development Area, Daniela González Ollino, Research Assistant, and Leandro Reboiras Finardi, Population Affairs Officer, all of the same Division. The drafting group comprised Simone Cecchini, Helena Cruz Castanheira, Daniela González Ollino, Francis Jones, Leandro Reboiras Finardi, Jorge Rodríguez Vignoli and Zulma Sosa Portillo, all of ECLAC, and Verónica Montes de Oca Zavala, Consultant of CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC. Mario Acuña and Udy Bell of CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC and Francis Jones of the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean also participated in the preparation of the document. The authors would like to extend special thanks to Bernardo Atuesta, Maria Luisa Montero, Claudia Robles, Daniela Trucco and Juan Vila of the Social Development Division of ECLAC, Ana Güezmes, Macarena Muñoz and Lucía Scuro, of its Division for Gender Affairs and Karen García and Xavier Mancero of its Statistics Division for their assistance. Thanks are also owed to Yazmin Violeta Arenas Sánchez, Rosaura Avalos Pérez, Jennie Dador, Valeria Itzel Espinosa Hernández, Mirna Hebrero Martínez, Ivonne Jagüey Camarena, Karla Pérez Guadarrama, Itzel de Jesús Romero Rosales, Claudia Tejos, María de Lourdes Velasco Domínguez and Marissa Vivaldo-Martínez for their assistance. Thanks are also owed to Sabrina Juran, Jackeline Romio and Noe Valdiviezo, of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), for their collaboration.

When preparing the document, the authors received support under the cooperation agreement between the Republic of Korea and ECLAC - 2021 Programme