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In November 2020, WHO-UNICEF “Guidance on developing a national deployment and vaccination plan (NDVP)” for COVID-19 vaccines was issued to...
According to the WHO World report on ageing and health , the number of people over the age of 60 is expected to double by 2050. This will result...
2 January 2017
Global strategy and action plan on ageing and health
The Strategy is a significant step forward in establishing a framework for Member States, the WHO Secretariat and partners to contribute to achieving the...
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20 June 2023
Vaccinating older adults against COVID-19
The objective of this document is to identify successful strategies, enablers and examples of successful strategies to identify and offer vaccine doses...
29 May 2023
WHO Vitality Capacity Working Group report on initial steps towards measurements of vitality capacity...
The WHO Ageing and Health Unit, part of the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, in collaboration with the Frailty...
28 November 2022
WHO Locomotor Capacity Working Group report on initial steps towards measurements of locomotor capacity...
The primary purpose of this meeting was to develop a clear conceptual working definition of locomotor capacity, to enable the monitoring and evaluation...
28 August 2022
WHO clinical consortium on healthy ageing 2021: report of consortium meeting held virtually, 5-6 November...
The 2021 annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA) was the seventh gathering, held virtually...
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The UN Decade of healthy ageing: strengthening measurement for monitoring health and wellbeing of older people
Age and Ageing, Volume 51, Issue 7, July 2022, afac147,
Framework Implementation of the INSPIRE ICOPE-CARE Program in Collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Occitania Region
The Journal of Frailty & Aging volume 10, pages103–109 (2021)
Integrated Care For Older People (ICOPE): From Guidelines To Demonstrating Feasibility
J Frailty Aging 2021;10(2)84-85
The structure and predictive value of intrinsic capacity in a longitudinal study of ageing
BMJ Open 2019;9:e026119
WHO working definition of vitality capacity for healthy longevity monitoring
The Lancet, Health Longevity, VOLUME 3, ISSUE 11, E789-E796, NOVEMBER 01, 2022
Artificial intelligence for older people receiving long-term care: a systematic review of acceptability and effectiveness studies
Lancet Healthy Longev 2022; 3: e286–97
Redesigning care for older people to preserve physical and mental capacity: WHO guidelines on community-level interventions in integrated care
PLoS Med 16(10): e1002948
Evidence for the domains supporting the construct of intrinsic capacity
The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Volume 73, Issue 12, December 2018, Pages 1653–1660
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