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Mental Health of Older Persons – UNECE
This policy brief from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) outlines the determinants and prevalence of mental health issues among older adults in...
Global database of promising interventions to address abuse of older people
Produced as part of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, this database aims to develop a portfolio of effective approaches to prevent and respond to...
Healthy Ageing & Prevention Index: how do countries perform worldwide?
The International Longevity Centre – ILC is seizing the momentum of the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris to remind that sports and fitness play an...
Promoting physical activity and healthy diets for healthy ageing in the WHO European Region
Lifestyle and medical advances that contribute to longevity are achievements to celebrate, but they have brought considerable and unintended social, economic and health challenges as...
Connecting healthy ageing and vision
The report Connecting Healthy Ageing and Vision, released on World Sight Day by The Fred Hollows Foundation and the International Federation of Ageing (IFA), calls...
Measurements of Healthy Ageing: Measuring what matters to older persons
The biggest challenge to measure healthy ageing has been the plethora of ways to collect and analyse data. Given this challenge, it is necessary to make...
Promoting physical activity for older people: a toolkit for action
This toolkit from the World Health organization (WHO) draws on the best available evidence and practice to demonstrate the importance of ensuring that environments and...
Growing old with dignity – The challenges of long-term care in Europe
In its report, Caritas Europa analyses the care sector’s challenges in 13 European countries and calls for more investments, better labour conditions for care workers, and improved access...
Older Persons in Vulnerable Situations – Policy Brief
At any age, intersecting factors such as poverty, disability, social isolation and exposure to abuse can increase the risk of vulnerability and weaken resilience in...
Causes of death statistics by age group – Eurostat
This article by Eurostat looks into the causes of death in the European Union by age groups, using the most recent statistics (year 2020). It...
WHO Global Report on Long-Term Care Financing
This report examines the financing of long-term care globally, describing the challenges of long-term care funding in high as well as low- and middle-income countries....
Roma access to adequate health care and long-term care
Launched on the occasion of its annual Policy Conference on 23 November 2022, the European Roma Grassroots Organisations (ERGO) Network released its research report on...
Psychosocial Risks & Older Workers’ Health – Strategies for a healthier workplace
This policy brief by EuroHealthNet proposes strategies for mitigating psychosocial risks to older workers’ (age 55-65+) health in the workplace. Older workers tend to experience...
‘Tout le monde a le droit de choisir. Les personnes âgées aussi’
Les lieux de vie et de soins de demain et d’après-demain: voilà un thème sociétal à aborder d’urgence ! Car les endroits où des personnes...
Démence chez les personnes âgées issues de l’immigration
Cette publication présente les principales conclusions d’une étude de cinq ans sur la démence et sa prise en charge chez les personnes âgées issues de...
Developing the Long-Term Care Empowerment Model
The report commissioned by the Govenment of Biscay and drafted in collaboration with AGE Platform Europe, lays the fundations of a new, empowering, accessible and...
Optimizing brain health across the life course: WHO position paper
Many determinants are known to affect brain health at different stages of life. The position paper provides a conceptual framework for what brain health is...
Tackling abuse of older people: five priorities for the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing
This policy brief outlines five priorities to prevent and respond to abuse of older people: combat ageism; generate more and better data on prevalence and...
Rebuilding for sustainability and resilience: strengthening the integrated delivery of long-term care in the European Region
The pandemic of COVID-19) has revealed and accentuated important gaps in the provision of appropriate, community-based, long-term care services for a rapidly growing number of...
Dementia and how to deal with it
The brochure is intended above all for the person with dementia who, in the early stages of the disease and often for many years after,...
Alzheimer Europe report on sex, gender and sexuality in the context of dementia
This report aims to promote the right of every person with dementia, irrespective of their sex, gender identity and sexual orientation, to be treated with...
Ageism in artificial intelligence for health
The WHO policy brief Ageism in Artificial Intelligence for Health examines the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and public health for older people,...
Health and social care near the end of life: can policies reduce costs and improve outcomes?
This brief by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies reviews the evidence on health and social care needs and expenditures at the end...
COVID-19 and older people: Impact on their lives, support and care
This report by Eurofound focuses on older people’s lives during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they were impacted by governments’ and societies’ responses in terms...
