1. The Freedom of Healthy Ageing
Dr John Beard
Director, Ageing and Life Course

2. Populations are getting older
2040
2045
2050
2035
2030
2015
2020
2025

3. Populations are getting older
2015
2050
We know that populations are getting older overall. The number of people aged 60 years or older will rise from 900 million to 2 billion between 2015 and 2050 (moving from 12% to 22% of the total global population). These two map shows how populations are changing in different countries around the world.

4. Better Starting Points for a Societal Response to Population Ageing
2015
2050
We know that populations are getting older overall. The number of people aged 60 years or older will rise from 900 million to 2 billion between 2015 and 2050 (moving from 12% to 22% of the total global population). These two map shows how populations are changing in different countries around the world.

5. Better Starting Points for a Societal Response to Population Ageing
1. Older people have rights enshrined in international law
2015
2050
We know that populations are getting older overall. The number of people aged 60 years or older will rise from 900 million to 2 billion between 2015 and 2050 (moving from 12% to 22% of the total global population). These two map shows how populations are changing in different countries around the world.

6. Better Starting Points for a Societal Response to Population Ageing
1. Older people have rights enshrined in international law
2. Sustainable development requires enabling the contributions of older people and ensuring they are not left behind
2015
2050
We know that populations are getting older overall. The number of people aged 60 years or older will rise from 900 million to 2 billion between 2015 and 2050 (moving from 12% to 22% of the total global population). These two map shows how populations are changing in different countries around the world.

7. Better Starting Points for a Societal Response to Population Ageing
1. Older people have rights enshrined in international law
2. Sustainable development requires enabling the contributions of older people and ensuring they are not left behind
2015
2050
3. Older populations are diverse
We know that populations are getting older overall. The number of people aged 60 years or older will rise from 900 million to 2 billion between 2015 and 2050 (moving from 12% to 22% of the total global population). These two map shows how populations are changing in different countries around the world.

8. Physical capacity across the life course

9. What is Healthy Ageing?
"Healthy ageing is the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age."

10. Functional Ability

11. Functional Ability

12. Functional Ability
Intrinsic Capacity

13. Functional Ability
Intrinsic Capacity

14. Functional Ability
Intrinsic Capacity

15. Functional Ability
Intrinsic Capacity

16. Functional Ability Functional Ability = Intrinsic Capacity
+ Environment

17. Domains of Functional Ability
Meet basic needs
Learn, grow and make decisions
Be mobile
Build and maintain relationships
Contribute

18. High and Stable
Declining
Significant loss
Intrinsic
Capacity
Age

19. High and Stable
Declining
Significant loss
Intrinsic
Capacity
Age

20. High and Stable
Declining
Significant loss
Intrinsic
Capacity
Age

21. High and Stable
Declining
Significant loss
Functional ability
Age

22. High and Stable
Declining
Significant loss
Functional ability
Age

23. Global Strategy and Action Plan on Ageing and Health
VISION
A world in which everyone can live a long and healthy life
GOALS
Five years of evidence-based action to maximize functional ability that reaches every person.
By 2020, establish evidence and partnerships necessary to support a Decade of Healthy Ageing from 2020 to 2030

24. Global Strategy and Action Plan on Ageing and Health
Commitment
Age-friendly environments
Re-aligning health systems
Developing systems for providing long-term care
Better measurement, monitoring and research

25. Global Strategy and Action Plan on Ageing and Health
Commitment
Age-friendly environments
Combat ageism and transform understanding of ageing and health
Foster older people’s autonomy
Enable older people’s engagement
Promote multisectoral action
Re-aligning health systems
Developing systems for providing long-term care
Better measurement, monitoring and research

26. Expenditure on ageing populations

27. Implications of Healthy Ageing for policy makers
Shift from defining what an older person should do to enabling their ability
Healthy Ageing is for everyone – even for long-term care
Need to address, not reinforce inequity
Fundamental need to overcome ageism
Need for policy to be evidence based

28. Roles of the environment
High and Stable
Declining
Significant loss
Functional ability
Age

29. Personal characteristics and the environment
Fixed – ethnicity, sex
Mobile – occupation, educational attainment, wealth, age
These can influence how we see and interact with the environment, but also how it sees and interacts with us.

30. Resources
Beard JR et al. The World Report on Ageing and Health: a policy framework for healthy ageing. The Lancet Published online October 29, 2015 doi: /S (15)
The World report on ageing and health

32. These actions are likely to be a sound investment in society's future
These actions are likely to be a sound investment in society's future. A future that gives older people the freedom to live lives that previous generations might never have imagined