Health in older age -- Acknowledgements -- 3. Adding health to years -- Introduction -- The context for action -- The international legal and policy frameworks -- Current public-health response -- more of the same will not be enough -- The challenges for policy development -- Diversity in older age -- The impact of inequity -- Outdated stereotypes, new expectations -- The world is changing too -- Why act on ageing and health? -- The rights of older people -- Ageing, health and development -- The economic imperative -- Conclusion -- 2. Healthy Ageing -- What is ageing? -- Ageing, health and functioning -- A framework for action on ageing and health -- Healthy Ageing -- Trajectories of Healthy Ageing -- A public-health framework for Healthy Ageing -- Key issues for public-health action -- Dealing with diversity -- Reducing inequity -- Enabling choice -- Ageing in place -- 3. Health in older age -- Economic impact of population ageing on health systems -- Population ageing -- Why are populations ageing? -- Are the added years in older age being experienced in good health? -- Health characteristics in older age -- Underlying changes -- Health conditions in older age -- Other complex health issues in older age -- Intrinsic capacity and functional ability -- Intrinsic capacity across the life course -- Patterns of functioning in countries at different levels of socioeconomic development -- Significant loss of functional ability, and care dependence -- Key behaviours that influence Healthy Ageing -- Physical activity -- Nutrition -- Key environmental risks -- Emergency situations -- Elder abuse -- 4. Health systems -- Introduction -- Rising demand, barriers to use, poorly aligned services -- Demand for health services -- Barriers to use -- Systems designed for different problems -- Economic impact of population ageing on health systems -- Conclusion. The goal: optimize trajectories of intrinsic capacity -- Adapt interventions to individuals and their levels of capacity -- Implement older-person-centred and integrated care -- Align health systems -- Conclusion. 7. Index. Introduction -- The growing need for long-term care -- Current approaches to long-term care -- The long-term-care workforce: often undervalued and lacking support and training -- Financing long-term care: it always has a cost -- Care provision: outdated and fragmented -- Responding to the challenge of long-term care -- Moving towards an integrated system: a revolutionary agenda -- General principles of an integrated system of long-term care -- Enabling ageing in the right place -- Building workforce capacity and supporting caregivers -- Promoting integrated care through case management and broader collaboration -- Ensuring sustainable and equitable financing -- Changing mindsets about long-term care: a political and social challenge -- Conclusion -- 6. Towards an age-friendly world -- Introduction -- Ability to meet basic needs -- Financial security, housing, personal security -- What works in improving financial security -- What works in ensuring adequate housing -- What works in meeting the need for personal security -- Abilities to learn, grow and make decisions -- What works in fostering the abilities to learn, grow and make decisions -- Ability to be mobile -- What works to maintain mobility in older age -- Abilities to build and maintain relationships -- What works to build and maintain relationships -- Ability to contribute -- What works in facilitating the ability to contribute -- The way forward -- 7. Next steps -- Introduction -- Key areas for action on Healthy Ageing -- Align health systems to the needs of the older populations they now serve -- Develop systems for providing long-term care -- Creating age-friendly environments -- Improve measurement, monitoring and understanding -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Index.
Summary:
"Comprehensive public health action on population ageing is urgently needed. This will require fundamental shifts, not just in the things we do, but in how we think about ageing itself. The World report on ageing and health outlines a framework for action to foster Healthy Ageing built around the new concept of functional ability. This will require a transformation of health systems away from disease based curative models and towards the provision of older-person-centred and integrated care. It will require the development, sometimes from nothing, of comprehensive systems of long term care."--Page 4 of cover.
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