Overview
The Strategy is a significant step forward in establishing a framework for Member States, the WHO Secretariat and partners to contribute to achieving the vision that all people can live long and healthy lives.
The Strategy (2016 – 2020) has two goals:
- five years of evidence-based action to maximize functional ability that reaches every person; and
- by 2020, establish evidence and partnerships necessary to support a Decade of Healthy Ageing from 2020 to 2030.
Specifically the Strategy focuses on five strategic objectives:
- commitment to action on Healthy Ageing in every country;
- developing age-friendly environments;
- aligning health systems to the needs of older populations;
- developing sustainable and equitable systems for providing long-term care (home, communities, institutions); and
- improving measurement, monitoring and research on Healthy Ageing.
Source: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241513500
