To guide decision-makers, the report presents\u00a0an integrated approach for emergency\u00a0preparedness and response that is grounded\u00a0in the WHO Active Ageing Policy\u00a0Framework . This approach adopts a life\u00a0course perspective that takes into account\u00a0the diversity of needs and capacities of persons\u00a0as they grow older. Focusing on the\u00a0multisectoral determinants of active ageing\u00a0that are in play in crisis situations, it shows\u00a0how to promote the health, participation\u00a0and security of older persons before, during\u00a0and after an emergency. This approach can\u00a0be the basis for differentiating and integrating\u00a0older persons within comprehensive\u00a0emergency planning. At the same time, it\u00a0serves to encompass emergency management\u00a0within broader health and social\u00a0policy addressing individual and population\u00a0ageing. The report marshals the evidence\u00a0and builds the case as follows:<\/p>\n
\n- Part 1 describes the converging trends of rapid growth of the population over 60 years of age and of health emergencies, and outlines the resulting challenges.<\/li>\n
- Part 2 outlines the basic elements of emergency planning and summarizes the findings from each of the case studies, identifying the impacts of the emergency situations on older persons and the strengths and gaps in emergency preparedness, response and recovery.<\/li>\n
- Part 3 integrates the evidence within the WHO Active Ageing policy framework to show how emergency management can be strengthened by a comprehensive and systematic application of this framework.<\/li>\n
- Part 4 presents the policy response, with concrete proposals to strengthen the active ageing pillars of health, participation and security in emergency management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Read the full WHO report:<\/p>\n
\n- In English<\/a><\/li>\n
- In French<\/a><\/li>\n
- In Korean<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To guide decision-makers, the report presents\u00a0an integrated approach for emergency\u00a0preparedness and response that is grounded\u00a0in the WHO Active Ageing Policy\u00a0Framework . This approach adopts a life\u00a0course perspective that takes into account\u00a0the diversity of needs and capacities of persons\u00a0as they grow older. Focusing on the\u00a0multisectoral determinants of active ageing\u00a0that are in play in crisis situations, it shows\u00a0how to promote the health, participation\u00a0and security of older persons before, during\u00a0and after an emergency. This approach can\u00a0be the basis for differentiating and integrating\u00a0older persons within comprehensive\u00a0emergency planning. At the same time, it\u00a0serves to encompass emergency management\u00a0within broader health and social\u00a0policy addressing individual and population\u00a0ageing. The report marshals the evidence\u00a0and builds the case as follows:<\/p>\n
\n- Part 1 describes the converging trends of rapid growth of the population over 60 years of age and of health emergencies, and outlines the resulting challenges.<\/li>\n
- Part 2 outlines the basic elements of emergency planning and summarizes the findings from each of the case studies, identifying the impacts of the emergency situations on older persons and the strengths and gaps in emergency preparedness, response and recovery.<\/li>\n
- Part 3 integrates the evidence within the WHO Active Ageing policy framework to show how emergency management can be strengthened by a comprehensive and systematic application of this framework.<\/li>\n
- Part 4 presents the policy response, with concrete proposals to strengthen the active ageing pillars of health, participation and security in emergency management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Read the full WHO report:<\/p>\n
\n- In English<\/a><\/li>\n
- In French<\/a><\/li>\n
- In Korean<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":2354,"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":[129,312,297],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353"}],"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=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extranet.who.int\/agefriendlyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}