Key facts on ageing and health: explanation of ageing, common health conditions associated with ageing, Factors influencing Healthy Ageing, Challenges in responding to population ageing and WHO's response
MSN: Sir Muir Gray and Angela Rippon to speak at The Oxford Longevity Project's Smart Ageing Summit
The innovative Smart Ageing Summit, organised by the not-for-profit Oxford Longevity Project, will return again this summer to explore how we can age smarter and better right now, with Sir Muir Gray, ...
Sir Muir Gray and Angela Rippon to speak at The Oxford Longevity Project's Smart Ageing Summit
Ageing presents both challenges and opportunities. It will increase demand for primary health care and long-term care, require a larger and better trained workforce, intensify the need for physical and social environments to be made more age-friendly, and call for everyone in every sector to combat ageism.
Ageing Healthy ageing is defined as developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being in later years. Functional ability is influenced by the intrinsic capacity of an individual's physical and mental capacities, the environments in which people live–spanning physical, social, health and care, as well as policy dimensions—and the dynamic interaction between these ...
The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030) is an opportunity to bring together governments, civil society, international agencies, professionals, academia, the media, and the private sector for ten years of concerted, catalytic and collaborative action to improve the lives of older people, their families, and the communities in which they live.
The rapidly population ageing population in the Western Pacific Region has widespread implications for health, wellbeing, and the general organization of societies. It increases demand for primary health care and long-term care, requires a larger and better trained health workforce, increases the need for physical and social environments to be made more age-friendly, and calls for actions to ...