What's prompted this? Wales wants to be an international leader in all things inter-generational. It claims to be the first country to incorporate the Madrid Declaration into a national policy. Ah, the Madrid Declaration. Just remind me ... It's an international plan of action from a conference in Madrid in 2002 looking at the challenges of an ageing population. It stressed the need for solidarity between generations. In 2003, the Welsh Assembly Government published a strategy for older people, then commissioned intergenerational charity...