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These WHO guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for delaying and/or preventing cognitive decline and dementia through lifestyle behaviors and interventions. The guidelines may be useful for health care providers, policy-makers, and other...
This fact sheet defines dementia and its common forms, and describes signs and symptoms, treatment and care, risk factors and prevention, and the social, economic, and familial impacts of the disease. Links are included to WHO's public health...
This fact sheet provides statistics on how common elder abuse is and in what forms abuse may occur. The website also details risk factors, prevention, and WHO's response to the problem.
Source: World Health Organization (WHO), 2022....
These WHO guidelines propose evidence-based recommendations for health professionals to prevent, slow, or reverse declines in the physical and mental health of older adults. The PDF of the guidelines is available for download in seven languages....
This website explains the WHO Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) package of tools, which help key stakeholders in health and social care to design and implement a person-centered and coordinated model of care.. The site includes links to the...
The WHO document describes the plan for a Decade of Decade 2020-2030, which is the second action plan of the WHO Global Strategy on Ageing and Health. It outlines the opportunity for governments, civil society, international agencies, professionals,...
This report provides the global strategy and action plan on aging and health developed in May 2016 by the World Health Assembly. It establishs a framework focusing on five strategic objectives to achieve healthy aging for all.
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This fact sheet explains aging, lists health conditions associated with aging, and describes factors that affect healthy aging. Challenges to responding to population ageing are addressed, along with WHO's action plan for responding to these...
This website includes various information and tools to help caregivers when caring for Alzheimer's disease or other related dementia patients. The information included are topics such as understanding dementia, behavior issues, communication, everyday...
This 25 minute video presented by Dr. Xaviour Walkerat the University of California Irvine provides a deeper look into what healthy aging is and what it looks like. He also discusses how to incorporate healthy aging into clinics.
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The Age-Friendly Care and Education Collection is part of
Minnesota Northstar GWEP,
supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Award No. U1QHP33076, the University of Minnesota Office of Academic
Clinical Affairs, and the Otto Bremer Trust.