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years, the repercussions could be substantial (WHO, 2015). As a consequence, the idea of ‘Healthy Ageing’ has been adopted by the World Health Organization, to assist in the development of age-focused research, policies and practices to promote healthy ageing and to build upon previously ...
The new WHO's baseline report for the decade of healthy ageing 2021–30 sets the stage for a change in approach to monitoring the health of older people.1 On the basis of WHO's 2015 world report on ageing and health,2“healthy ageing” is defined as the “ongoing process of developing...
Stone, “Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing,” , February 2015, Volume 385, Number 9,968. The analysis approach is meant to provide a comprehensive picture of how older adults perceive their health, how their perceptions compare with objective measures of health, and what behaviors ...
The sequenced genomes of individuals aged >= 80 years, who were highly educated, self-referred volunteers and with no self-reported chronic diseases were compared to young controls. In these data, healthy ageing is a distinct phenotype from exceptional longevity and genetic factors that protect ...
Action 1. “Changing how people think, feel and act toward age and ageing” (WHO2020, p 9). This action is described as challenging negative attitudes about age which are common in all societies. The argument is that reducing ageism is important given its pervasive impact on the way problem...
The WHO Report and GSAP promote healthy ageing as a person-centered concept, based on life course and capability-based perspectives that can be applied to all people in all settings. Rather than a focus on morbidity or disease, healthy ageing is defined as “the process of developing and main...
World Health Organization. Ageing and Health. Available online:https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-health(accessed on 20 January 2020). Tyrovolas, S.; Haro, J.M.; Mariolis, A.; Piscopo, S.; Valacchi, G.; Tsakountakis, N.; Zeimbekis, A.; Tyrovola, D....
Longitudinal research from the United States also found that older people who hold negative attitudes towards ageing live on average 7.5 years less (after controlling for key determinants) than people with positive attitudes to ageing [28]. This supports previous work that found that being ...
This project was financed by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal) (Contract grant number: P-139977; project “Better mental health during ageing based on temporal prediction of individual brain ageing trajectories (TEMPO)”), co-financed by Portuguese North Regional Operational Program ...