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  1. Ageing and health - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Oct 1, 2025 · Key facts on ageing and health: explanation of ageing, common health conditions associated with ageing, Factors influencing Healthy Ageing, Challenges in responding to population …

  2. Ageing - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Jan 27, 2021 · 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 …

  3. Ageing: Global population

    Feb 21, 2025 · Addressing ageism requires a fundamental shift in societal attitudes, feelings and behaviours towards ageing and older persons. Age-friendly environments empower older individuals …

  4. WHO's work on the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030)

    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 …

  5. Ageing - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Feb 28, 2018 · The world’s population is rapidly ageing The number of people aged 60 years or older will rise from 900 million to 2 billion between 2015 and 2050 (moving from 12% to 22% of the total …

  6. Healthy ageing and functional ability - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Oct 26, 2020 · Healthy ageing is the focus of WHO’s work on ageing between 2015 – 2030. Healthy ageing replaces the World Health Organization’s previous focus on active ageing, a policy framework …

  7. Envejecimiento y salud - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Desde un punto de vista biológico, el envejecimiento es la consecuencia de la acumulación de una gran variedad de daños moleculares y celulares a lo largo del tiempo, lo que lleva a un descenso gradual …

  8. Ageing and Health - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Extending healthy ageing across the life course: connecting healthy development and healthy ageing World Health Organization (WHO)’s work on the life course – connecting healthy development and …

  9. Ageing EURO - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Jun 6, 2022 · 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 …

  10. Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing - Combatting Ageism

    Ageism affects how we think, feel and act towards others and ourselves based on age. It imposes powerful barriers to the development of good policies and programmes for older and younger people, …