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The World Health Organization (WHO) approach to healthy ageing
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The ageing of the global population is the most important medical and social demographic problem worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined healthy ageing as a process of maintaining functional ability to enable wellbeing in older age. The WHO, Member States and Partners for Sustainable Development Goals have created a Global Strategy and Action Plan for Ageing and Health for 2016-2020 and its continuation with the WHO programme The Decade of Healthy Ageing 2020-2030. The WHO has established main priorities such as supporting country planning and action, collecting better global data and promoting research on healthy ageing, aligning health systems to the needs of older people, laying the foundations and ensuring the human resources necessary for long-term integrated care, undertaking a global campaign to combat ageism, and enhancing the global network for age-friendly cities and communities. There are several reports of coordinated preventive health and social health initiatives in well developed countries. However, there is little evidence on the application of the active ageing frameworks in developing countries. Greater national capacities and closer monitoring of the progress through age-disaggregated data is needed to effectively implement the intended programmes on healthy ageing.
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“Aging is associated with muscle loss, increased body fat, reduced bone density, and cardiovascular and cognitive decline, all of which heighten frailty and fall risk [86,87].”
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“On the other hand, muscle strength training combined with food supplementation strategies seems to increase the benefits, and become a doubly effective intervention to promote healthy aging in adults over 50 years of age [35,36,37].”
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- Authors
- Rudnicka, E., Napierała, P., Podfigurna, A., Męczekalski, B., Smolarczyk, R., & Grymowicz, M.
- Affiliations
- Medical University of Warsaw (PL)
- Poznan University of Medical Sciences (PL)
- Corresponding author
- Grymowicz, Monika
- Venue
- Maturitas
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-09
- Volume
- 139
- Pages
- 6-11
- ISSN
- 0378-5122 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7250103
- OpenAlex
- W3032592468
- Cited by
- 1,750
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 324 · 2025: 465 · 2024: 484 · 2023: 278 · 2022: 155 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 124.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Maturitas (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Life-span and Life-course Studies › Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- healthy aging, World Health Organization, ageism, active ageing, older adults, developing countries, population aging
- MeSH terms
- Healthy Aging, Aged, Aging, Humans, Global Health, World Health Organization
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