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The Baseline Report for the Decade of Healthy Ageing. 2021−2030 addresses five issues: THE REPORT STRESSES THAT. At least 142 million older persons worldwide are unable to meet their basic needs. Optimizing functional ability is a key to healthy ageing.
This update focuses on: explaining Healthy Ageing; how the idea of a Decade of Healthy Ageing came about; how the Decade will be developed; and provides summaries of key fora, meetings and events that have taken place or are planned.
This will require a shift in focus from considering healthy ageing as the absence of disease to fostering the functional ability that enables older people to be and to do what they value. Actions to improve healthy ageing will be needed at multiple levels and in multiple sectors to prevent disease, promote health, maintain intrinsic capacity
When asked “what issues should the Decade focus on”, survey respondents prioritized: improved engagement with older people; better understanding of older peoples’ needs; developing and
6 paź 2022 · The new successful aging model focuses on eliminating likely hazards within the environment and aims to promote health knowledge and accessible health care, thereby reducing negative outcomes and allowing a higher level of physical and mental functioning.
The WHO baseline report for the decade of healthy ageing is a milestone in the ageing domain for multiple reasons. First, it clearly defines the biopsychosocial components of healthy ageing (intrinsic capacity, functional ability, and environments).
The world is facing a situation without precedent: We soon will have more older people than children and more people at extreme old age than ever before. As both the proportion of older people and the length of life increase throughout the world, key questions arise.
