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White paper: The Future of the Care Economy

This paper contributes to the evolution and acceleration of the global care agenda by taking stock of the state of the care economy at the beginning of 2024 and surfacing new perspectives to release its economic potential. It is unique in its global approach and its emphasis on public-private collaboration. It details the ways in which care is critical to addressing longstanding inequities as well as to fuelling growth. The paper subsequently lays out the interlinkages between the public sector, private sector and civil society that stakeholders can use to strengthen care economies. It advances a set of design principles and highlights key success factors observed in existing models. Finally, it surfaces promising practices implemented by a range of stakeholders that can support the exploration of meaningful investments and the striking of key partnerships. It argues that a well designed care economy will achieve: higher levels of productivity and growth; higher levels of gender parity; higher levels of workforce participation; higher levels of educational attainment; higher business profitability and efficiency; lower levels of inequality; lower long-term social expenditure. More

Violence against women 60 years and older: data availability, methodological issues and recommendations for good practice

This briefing note, which focuses on the measurement of violence against women 60 years and older, is one in a series of methodological briefing notes for strengthening the measurement and data collection of violence against particular groups of women or specific aspects of violence against women. These briefing notes are meant for researchers, national statistics offices and others involved in data collection on violence against women. More

Making older persons visible in the sustainable development goals’ monitoring framework and indicators

In 2015, the world reaffirmed its commitment to sustainable development by endorsing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 SDGs (2030 Agenda). To reach older people – an important, heterogeneous and growing population – and to create visibility in global and national policy and accountability mechanisms, a closer examination is needed of the kinds of data collection mechanisms and methods, and types of data collected to measure each SDG indicator relevant for older persons, including existing levels of disaggregation, analysis and dissemination. This WHO report is co-sponsored by the United Kingdom Office of National Statistics and the Ghana Statistical Service and reflects one of the major outputs for the Titchfield City Group on Ageing and Age-disaggregated Data Conceptual and Analytical Working Group. The report provides concrete examples of indicators and learnings from 20 National Statistics Offices (NSOs) on SDG indicators relevant for older people that are already being collected. Shared experiences from NSOs around the world demonstrate that disaggregation of data is possible, and that this information is useful to indicate the diverse experiences of older persons. More

The State of Ageing in Greater Manchester 2024

This report is a collation of the most relevant and contemporary data and evidence on ageing in Greater Manchester (GM) available in the second half of 2023. It is intended to inform those working in policy, service delivery, and communities across the city region on the challenges and opportunities experienced by people in mid and later life now and in the future. Wherever possible, we have used sources that relate specifically to GM residents, referencing sources only available for the North, England, or the UK where we are confident that the findings are relevant to our population. The State of Ageing in Greater Manchester provides the evidence base for the Combined Authority’s refreshed Age-friendly Strategy, which sets out what needs to happen over the next decade to make GM the best city region to grow old. While recognising the importance of all of the determinants of good ageing environments as set out in the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) age-friendly domains, we have collated the evidence under three of the GM Ageing Hub’s key themes – Economy, Work and Money; Places; Ageing Well; with the addition of a smaller section covering the cross-cutting theme of Digital Inclusion. The Strategy will have a further theme – Working Together – which articulates how we intend to grow the ageing ecosystem and how a collaboration between partners in the public, private, voluntary and community sectors can maximise the impact our work has on transforming people’s lives. More

World Population Ageing 2023: Challenges and opportunities of population ageing in the least developed countries

World Population Ageing 2023 examines the potential of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to benefit from a demographic dividend as they are transiting from higher to lower levels of fertility and mortality that yields a period of rapid population increase, and, eventually, an increasingly older population. Through an analysis of demographic, social, economic and health-related indicators, as well as associated policies and investments, the report assesses the challenges and opportunities of translating favourable demographic trends into economic and developmental gains. A comparative study of LDCs in the Asia-Pacific region and in Africa, with a focus on Angola, Bangladesh and Rwanda, provides insights into the challenges and opportunities that arise at various stages of the demographic transition. The report concludes with a summary of key findings and policy guidance to help countries maximize the potential benefits of the demographic dividend to support their efforts to prepare for population ageing. More

Longevity Economy Principles: The Foundation for a Financially Resilient Future

This report, developed by a consortium of leaders from finance, health, academia and government, offers a strategic approach to the challenges and opportunities of an ageing global population. It proposes principles aimed at ensuring the financial resilience of all generations amid diverse national systems and goals like financial security and healthy living. By 2050, the global population aged above 60 is projected to more than double from 1 billion in 2020 to 2.1 billion, underscoring the urgent need for strategic approaches to ageing. The report tackles sensitive issues such as ageism, gender pension gaps and socioeconomic disparities in retirement savings. Emphasizing the need for difficult discussions about mortality and finance, it calls for a unified language and clear direction. The report also advocates for a holistic approach that balances health, financial stability and social considerations, and underscores the importance of collaborative, multistakeholder engagement focused on individual needs. The aim is to build sustainable, resilient solutions for the rapidly ageing global demographic. More

Final Report: UNITAR's Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing virtual roundtable series 2023

This report sums up the learning outcomes of UNITAR's Mainstreaming Knowledge on Ageing virtual roundtable series, run in 2023 as the second round. This round took the theme of 'Bridging paths towards strengthening protection and participation', with an emphasis on the notion that accessibility should not only be associated to persons with disabilities but with a wide spectrum of barriers that can affect different generations while ageing. The virtual roundtable series is a contribution to the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, and was developed in collaboration with the International Training Centers -CIFAL Global Network-, UNDESA, UNFPA, IOM, UN Women, UNHCR, WHO, OHCHR, ITU, ILO, the Group of Friends of the Human Rights of Older Persons UN Geneva; the Global Initiative on Ageing Foundation, GIA; the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse; the International Longevity Centre; the NGO Committee on Ageing Geneva; and the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. More

Voice and meaningful engagement in the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing: A discussion paper

This discussion paper aims to operationalise the concept of 'voice and meaningful engagement' in the context of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, as well as outline some possible opportunities for integrating such an approach across all of the action areas of the UN Decade. Voice and meaningful engagement is one of the enablers of the UN Decade and key towards ensuring that older people are at the centre of all that we do to transform the world to be a better place to grow older. This paper is a starting point rather than a definitive document, and all feedback to improve it is welcome. More

Community and Home-based Care & Older people – COVID-19 Health Help Desk

This is a comprehensive list of guidance resources related to community and home-based care for older people in the context of COVID-19, maintained by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies through the COVID-19 Health Help Desk initiative. More

Global Data Platform to Calculate SHS and Palliative Care Need

This platform to facilitate access to the data produced by the Lancet Commission on Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief (GAPCPR) was released as a service to the global palliative care community by the IAHPC together with the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas (UMIA), and the Mexican Health Foundation (FUNSALUD). The platform, created by researchers at UMIA and FUNSALUD, works in Tableau and enables users to calculate serious health related suffering (SHS) and the need for palliative care by income and geographic region for a vast number of countries. The data come from the GAPCPR Report "Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage" and an extensive data appendix. More

IAHPC - Palliative Care and COVID-19 Resources

The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) has compiled this list of resources relevant to palliative care and COVID-19 published by academia, civil society organizations, member states and special agencies of the United Nations, with links to all of the websites and documents listed. More

Panorama of Aging and Long-term Care

The accelerated aging process affecting the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean imposes unprecedented pressures on the field of long-term care. Increased demand for care by the elderly population is occurring in a context of reductions in the informal supply of care. Governments in the region should be prepared to face the pressures to come by supporting the provision of services to alleviate social exclusion among the elderly. The Inter-American Development Bank has prepared the Panorama of Aging and Long-Term Care with the objective of informing decision-makers about the health conditions of the elderly and the present and future needs for support services and policies based on the available empirical evidence. The Panorama provides comparable indicators, publications, and references that promote the design of effective policies to mitigate the effect of population aging. More

SAGE – Advocacy & Services for LGBTQ+ Elders

SAGE is the world’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ older people. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is an organization that advocates with and on behalf of and offers supportive services and resources to LGBTQ+ older people and their caregivers. More

Global Coalition on Aging Alliance for Health Innovation

The Alliance for Health Innovation brings together a diverse set of cross-sector stakeholders committed to health innovation through the lens of equity and healthy aging. Its mission is to establish the importance of innovation in achieving healthy aging through investments, policy reforms, and strategic partnerships – both for the value to patients and for health system sustainability. More

CommonAge, the Commonwealth Association for the Ageing

CommonAge is a charitable organisation, advocating to ensure older people are fully recognised in society, and are supported and enabled to live well in an all-age friendly Commonwealth. We support the view that a healthy ageing population is much less expensive one for governments to support, and therefore is less of a burden on taxpayers and health systems. We actively lobby governments, encourage sharing of ideas and promoting intergenerational activities, hold both physical and virtual events, and support ongoing research into issues affecting older people in the Commonwealth. More

Bihani Social Venture

Established in 2013, Bihani Social Venture is Nepal’s first social enterprise working to foster age and disability inclusive communities focusing on older adults. To promote a society inclusive of older people, Bihani offers innovative and diverse services and activities. Our primary focus is on individuals above the age of 50 (however not limited to it) while our secondary focus is on families, institutions and organisations who directly or indirectly work or interact with elders. More

Association of Senior Living India

Association of Senior Living India (ASLI) is a national organization formed with a vision to catalyse the growth and development of the elder care sector in India. The prime objective of the association is to create a platform for all the players in the senior continuum (independent living, home care, assisted living and lifestyle & technology providers) to draw knowledge, learn best practice and act as a single point of reference. More

BASGO e.V.

BAGSO is an umbrella organisation of about 120 civil society organisations that are run by or work for older people. As such, it calls on politicians, society and businesses to offer conditions that allow for a good and dignified life in older age. In important policy areas, BAGSO puts themes on the political agenda that are relevant for healthy and active ageing. In statements and position papers, BAGSO identifies requirements for good quality of life in older age and provides recommendations for political action at federal, state and municipal level. More

Social Innovation Group: University of Exeter, Penryn Campus

The Social Innovation Group is an interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus. We work on place-based, person-centred approaches to care, whether that is care for each other, our communities or our environment. We currently have two projects related to ageing. First, HAIRE (Healthy Ageing through Innovation in Rural Europe) which seeks to empower older people to articulate their needs and aspiration and to participate in service design and delivery in their communities. HAIRE operates in eight pilot sites in the UK, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Second, ANCHOR, which takes the toolkit designed in HAIRE and uses it to support the delivery of the NHS's Ageing Well agenda through improving anticipatory care in Cornwall, UK. Through these projects, we work in partnership with charities, agencies, government at all levels, health and care providers and voluntary sector organisations to co-design bespoke tools to support healthy and inclusive ageing. More

Foundation for Ageing and Inclusive Development (FAID)

FAID/فائد is a national not-for-profit organization in Pakistan established in 2020 by a group of professionals with experience of working on the issues of ageing and supported by HelpAge International. Our vision is of an inclusive society where ageing is dignified, healthy, happy and a secure experience for all. More

Lancet Commission on Long-Term Care for Older Persons

The UN declared 2021–30 to be the Decade of Healthy Ageing, and efforts are being made to maximise the functional ability of people over their life course. Yet older people are marginalised and perceived as a burden, particularly those with ongoing loss in capacity. Nowhere is this more conspicuous than in the context of long-term care (LTC) worldwide, where older people in some settings encounter a loss of independence and other violations of their human rights. Such experiences can range from deprivation of liberty and loss of legal capacity and consent to coerced institutionalisation, exposure to abuse, neglect, and disrespect, and persistent use of restraints. These circumstances create inequity, injustice, and indignity for older people. Overcoming these societal and political challenges requires the lens of human rights and a rethinking of the provision of LTC so that it respects the rights of older people and addresses their diverse needs and preferences in fragile LTC systems. A new Lancet Commission on Long-Term Care for Older Persons aims to take just such an approach, fostering person-centred LTC in accord with the WHO Healthy Ageing framework. Our Commissioners bring a wealth of perspectives drawn from different regions, care settings, and areas of interest, with expertise in geriatrics, geropsychology, geriatric psychiatry, gerontology, nursing, palliative care, primary care, social work, clinical epidemiology, health economics, health policy, and regulation. The Commission will work in co-creation with a group of older people from different regions with lived experience of LTC. More

ILC-UK Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index

Investing in people’s health is vital for everyone’s wellbeing and to ensure that we can truly benefit from the “longevity dividend” that could result from an ageing population. Yet we know that across the globe, action and investment in healthy ageing and preventative health continues to lag. This is where the Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index comes in. It ranks 121 countries against six indicators: life span, health span, work span, income, environmental performance, and happiness. This allows us to compare how sustainable different countries are, both in terms of longer lives and the extent to which their governments are investing in efforts to prevent ill health and support healthy ageing. We know prevention is better than cure. We know what works. Now we need to see action. More

Global Coalition on Aging Bone Health Initiative

The Global Coalition on Aging Bone Health Initiative was convened in 2022 to address the importance of bone health on the global public health agenda. Experts project that half a billion people will soon be living with osteoporosis, which weakens their bones and increases the risk of fragility fractures – fractures that occur because of weaker bones. Every 3 seconds, an older adult suffers a fracture, resulting in an estimated 9 million fractures globally every year. Approximately 33 percent of women and 20 percent of men aged 50 and older will experience osteoporosis-related bone fractures. More importantly, we know that individuals who sustain fragility fractures ddare a readily identifiable group at high imminent risk of sustaining second and subsequent fractures. More

AgeFriendly.org

AgeFriendly.org is a data-driven technology platform that aims to provide trusted content about the aging journey, help validate and elevate all things “age-friendly”, and invite older adults and caregivers to share reviews and ratings about programs, businesses, health care providers and other services where they live, work and thrive. Experts have used the term “age-friendly” for the last 15 years to describe and assess successful approaches to improving quality outcomes for older adults in cities, workplace, homes and provider settings. Providers around the globe are innovating and creating “age-friendly” best practices to better serve fast growing populations of older adults. Consumers too are recognizing and adopting this term, fueled by consumer-facing media in the U.S. that has used the term over 300,000 times in just the last two years. A missing link in this burgeoning “age-friendly” ecosystem has been a feedback loop: the ability for providers to collect consumer feedback at scale and use it to guide the creation of better programs and services that truly live up to the promise of “age-friendly.” User-generated rating and reviews sites exist in many categories (like travel) to promote authenticity, create trust and drive purchasing decisions. To date, a comparable site that elevates and connects “age-friendly” providers with older adults has not existed. AgeFriendly.org aims to address this gap. More

Social Isolation and Loneliness: Weekly Research Reports

This weekly research report, delivered via email and also available via a dedicated webpage, is compiled by the Foundation for Social Connection’s Social Isolation and Loneliness Workgroup (SILWG). Each week, the Workgroup brings together the latest publications, events, and research on the general topic of social isolation and loneliness, including but not limited to older people. The compiled information is generally sourced from the academic / research sector. More

Music for Dementia

Music for Dementia is a cross-sector national campaign to make music an integral part of dementia care in the UK. We already include more than 200 organisations from the NHS, care sector, third sector and music sector plus thousands of individual supporters, many with lived experience. All over the country there are pockets of excellence, where general practitioners are prescribing music, musicians are leading dementia choirs and music therapists are providing specialist services. Carers and individual families are discovering the difference that can be made to the life of someone living with dementia, by choosing the right song or piece of music at the right time. Music is the powerful, but as yet underused tool for supporting people living with dementia and must become an integrated part of dementia care. Music for Dementia is calling for greater collaboration between government, the music sector, health and social care and communities working at the grassroots to ensure that everyone living with dementia has access to music as part of their dementia care. More

WHO Technical Advisory Group for Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing

With the adoption of the United Nations (UN) Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030) by the 73rd World Health Assembly on 3 August 2020 and by the 75th General Assembly on 14 December 2020, countries have committed to 10 years of concerted and collaborative action to improve the lives of the older people (defined as age 60 years and over), their families and the communities in which they reside. To enable countries to monitor and evaluate the Decade's progress and impact, a monitoring and evaluation framework and standard set of indicators and measures are needed. These indicators should monitor healthy ageing, social determinants of health, health conditions, behaviour risks and well-being of older people. Guidance on measures, data collection, analysis and reporting are urgently needed to support global, regional and national monitoring of the actions, programmes and policies. To provide advice on the monitoring and evaluation framework, prioritizing and standardizing indicators and how to improve ageing and health measurement globally, WHO, in collaboration with UN DESA, UNFPA, ITU, ILO, UN Women, established the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation of the United Nation's Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030). More

InCARE survey on expectations, attitudes and experiences with long-term care

The InCARE project is developing participatory approaches to long-term care service development, in an attempt to strengthen the role of local stakeholders in the design of community-based care and support systems for older people and their families in Europe. We find that too often, long-term care policies and services are developed and implemented without taking into consideration the needs and wants of older people, who are often discriminated against (e.g. excluded from the policymaking process and/or are not empowered to share their voice and thoughts in matters that concern them). At the same time, younger adults, who are not perceived as being interested in topics related to ageing, are also excluded from the dialogue on long-term care. InCARE aims to give people of all ages the opportunity to be part of the discussion on how to structure long-term care systems in the future. More

WHO evidence and gap map on in-person interventions for reducing social isolation and loneliness (all ages)

Evidence and gap maps are interactive tools that help researchers and decision makers discover existing evidence on a given topic, find solutions supported by evidence, and identify gaps in the evidence where more research is required. The World Health Organization is developing evidence and gap maps as part of a multi-year project to summarise, disseminate, and increase uptake of evidence towards deeper integration in policies and practices during the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing. This evidence and gap map examines the evidence on in-person interventions for reducing social isolation and loneliness across all ages, including older people. More

Participatory video for meaningful engagement of older people: a toolkit

This toolkit by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows how the process known as “participatory video” (PV) can be used to ensure meaningful engagement of older people and contribute to the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030). The aim of this toolkit is to provide people working to implement the Decade with practical ways to understand and use the methods in the PV process for meaningful engagement of older people, to amplify their voices and foster healthy ageing everywhere. The toolkit sets out steps in planning, preparing, equipping, facilitating and managing PV, including obtaining consent and use of the films for dialogue with decision-makers and for wider advocacy. This toolkit is based on the approach, methods and experience of a pilot PV Voice project conducted by WHO for the Decade during 2020–2021 in which case studies were conducted in communities in three countries: Canada, Jordan and Togo. More

WHO evidence and gap map on digital interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness in older adults

Evidence and gap maps are interactive tools that help researchers and decision makers discover existing evidence on a given topic, find solutions supported by evidence, and identify gaps in the evidence where more research is required. The World Health Organization is developing evidence and gap maps as part of a multi-year project to summarise, disseminate, and increase uptake of evidence towards deeper integration in policies and practices during the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing. This evidence and gap map examines the evidence on digital interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness in older adults. More

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Humanitarian Response in Ukraine and Neighbouring Countries

This is a collection of resources on mental health and psychosocial support relevant for humanitarian responses in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, made available by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. The resources listed also have specific relevance to how older people can be supported and protected in conflict situations. Resources are available in English, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, and Ukrainian. More