WHO launches Healthy Ageing Collaborative

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced the launch of Healthy Ageing Collaborative, a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder network to advance implementation of the United Nations (UN) Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030). The Collaborative provides a new opportunity for State and non-State actors to work together, leveraging their respective strengths to address pressing issues that affect the lives of older people, their families, and communities. The Collaborative will raise awareness, strengthen international coordination on healthy ageing, support national level implementation while recognising the role of older persons, ensuring their meaningful engagement and the application of human rights-based approaches. Members of the Collaborative, aligned on aims and principles and willing to learn from each other, will prioritise issues that will be addressed in working groups. Collaborative action will contribute to the progressive realisation of the rights of all older people everywhere to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and harness the social and economic opportunities that population ageing provides.