{"id":2349,"date":"2014-06-26T08:08:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T08:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agefriendlyworld.local.org\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2014-09-17T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:27:28","slug":"global-health-and-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/global-health-and-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Health and Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preface:<\/span><\/p>\n

The world is facing a situation without precedent: We soon will have more older people than\u00a0children and more people at extreme old age than ever before. As both the proportion of older\u00a0people and the length of life increase throughout the world, key questions arise. Will population\u00a0aging be accompanied by a longer period of good health, a sustained sense of well-being, and\u00a0extended periods of social engagement and productivity, or will it be associated with more illness,\u00a0disability, and dependency? How will aging affect health care and social costs? Are these futures
\ninevitable, or can we act to establish a physical and social infrastructure that might foster better\u00a0health and wellbeing in older age? How will population aging play out differently for low-income\u00a0countries that will age faster than their counterparts have, but before they become industrialized\u00a0and wealthy?<\/p>\n

This brief report attempts to address some of these questions. Above all, it emphasizes the central\u00a0role that health will play moving forward. A better understanding of the changing relationship\u00a0between health with age is crucial if we are to create a future that takes full advantage of the\u00a0powerful resource inherent in older populations. To do so, nations must develop appropriate\u00a0data systems and research capacity to monitor and understand these patterns and relationships,\u00a0\u0005\u0006\u0007\u0005\u0004\bwell-being. And research needs to be better coordinated if we are to discover the most cost-effective
\nways to maintain healthful life styles and everyday functioning in countries at different stages of\u00a0economic development and with varying resources. Global efforts are required to understand and\u00a0existing knowledge about the prevention and treatment of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and\u00a0cancer.<\/p>\n

Managing population aging also requires building needed infrastructure and institutions as soon as\u00a0possible. The longer we delay, the more costly and less effective the solutions are likely to be.\u00a0Population aging is a powerful and transforming demographic force. We are only just beginning\u00a0to comprehend its impacts at the national and global levels. As we prepare for a new demographic\u00a0reality, we hope this report raises awareness not only about the critical link between global health\u00a0and aging, but also about the importance of rigorous and coordinated research to close gaps in our\u00a0knowledge and the need for action based on evidence-based policies.<\/p>\n

Read the full report by WHO, National Institute on Aging, and National Institutes of Health here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preface:<\/p>\n

The world is facing a situation without precedent: We soon will have more older people than\u00a0children and more people at extreme old age than ever before. As both the proportion of older\u00a0people and the length of life increase throughout the world, key questions arise. Will population\u00a0aging be accompanied by a longer period of good health, a sustained sense of well-being, and\u00a0extended periods of social engagement and productivity, or will it be associated with more illness,\u00a0disability, and dependency? How will aging affect health care and social costs? Are these futures
\ninevitable, or can we act to establish a physical and social infrastructure that might foster better\u00a0health and wellbeing in older age? How will population aging play out differently for low-income\u00a0countries that will age faster than their counterparts have, but before they become industrialized\u00a0and wealthy?<\/p>\n

This brief report attempts to address some of these questions. Above all, it emphasizes the central\u00a0role that health will play moving forward. A better understanding of the changing relationship\u00a0between health with age is crucial if we are to create a future that takes full advantage of the\u00a0powerful resource inherent in older populations. To do so, nations must develop appropriate\u00a0data systems and research capacity to monitor and understand these patterns and relationships,\u00a0\u0005\u0006\u0007\u0005\u0004\bwell-being. And research needs to be better coordinated if we are to discover the most cost-effective
\nways to maintain healthful life styles and everyday functioning in countries at different stages of\u00a0economic development and with varying resources. Global efforts are required to understand and\u00a0existing knowledge about the prevention and treatment of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and\u00a0cancer.<\/p>\n

Managing population aging also requires building needed infrastructure and institutions as soon as\u00a0possible. The longer we delay,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":2350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[552],"tags":[115,310,309,308,297],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}