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    World Health Organization.
    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.

    Contents:
    1. 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    Outdated stereotypes, new expectations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
    Demographic and epidemiological changes
    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
    Responses
    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
    5. Long-term-care systems
    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.
    Digital Access WHO 2015
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    Version
    Call Number
    Items
    Books: General Collection (Downstairs)
    2015
    RA564.8 .W675 2015
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