WHO launches Baseline report for Decade of Healthy Ageing

A number of indicators to be reported on by countries as a demonstration of commitment towards healthy ageing were agreed on by WHO Member States as part of the Global Strategy on Ageing and Health 2016-2020 and endorsed in 2020 within the context of the Decade for Healthy Ageing 2021-2030. Examples are the establishment of a national committee or forum on ageing; comprehensive assessments of the health and social care needs of older people; and a policy on strengthening  long-term care. The Baseline report notes improvements in all 10 indicators between 2018 (when initial data collection took place) and 2020. The most progress had been made in establishing national policies relating to healthy ageing, and the least, in  introducing and enforcing legislation against age-based discrimination.

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UN | World Population Ageing 2015, 164 pp

This report is the fifth in the series World Population Ageing. The first report was released in 2002 in conjunction  with  the  Second  World  Assembly  on  Ageing.  The  present  report,  which  updates  the  2007,  2009  and  2013  editions,  provides  a  description  of  global  trends  in  population  ageing  and  includes  new  features on the socio-economic and health aspects of ageing. This report is accompanied by an interactive database on the Profiles of Ageing 2015.

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