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Appendix A: Summary of the Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity
Pages 229-238

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From page 229...
... The commission defines healthy longevity as the following: In healthy longevity, years of good health approach the biological life span, with physical, cognitive, and social functioning that enables well-being. Societies achieving healthy longevity will benefit at large scale from enhanced human capital and contributions from older people.
From page 230...
... To provide concrete suggestions for healthier, longer lives, the commission recommends a series of actions to be taken in the next 5 years. TABLE A-1 Summary Table of the Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity Long-Term Goals for Longer Examples of Recommendations for and Healthier Lives in 2050 Supporting Structures the Next 5 Years Cross-cutting Recommendation 7-1.
From page 231...
... providing legal protections and systems that enable safe and population aging workplace policies to ensure worker meaningful work and other • Incentives to health and safety and income community engagement at recruit and retain protection (including during periods every stage of life older workers to of disability) across the life course; increase workforce b.
From page 232...
... Governments, opportunities that promote adoption of a range employers, and educational institutions participation in lifelong of innovative and should prioritize investments in learning and growth age-appropriate redesigning education systems to pedagogical support lifelong learning and training. approaches that Governments should also invest in work for people of the science of learning and training all ages for middle-aged and older adults.
From page 233...
... Governments cohesion augmented by eliminate age-based should develop evidence-based, intergenerational connections discrimination multipronged strategies for reducing and the creation of • Public information ageism against any age group by opportunities for purposeful campaigns a. collaborating across sectors -- for engagement by older people promoting the value example with local governments, at the family, community, and of older people and industry, and nongovernmental societal levels attacking stereotypes organizations -- to launch public • Multigenerational information campaigns that advocacy to fight highlight the value of older people age discrimination to society; to accomplish shared b.
From page 234...
... Recommendation 4-3. To improve financial security in retirement, governments and employers should develop strategies for increasing financial literacy and mechanisms for promoting pension contributions, self funded pensions, and lifelong savings.
From page 235...
... at the neighborhood level, housing design promoting and measuring the protocols that impact of innovation and policy enhance access to solutions for healthy longevity, food, transportation, intergenerational connection, and social services, and cohesion; engagement c. at the home level, updating • Programs to physical infrastructure to address mitigate the effects affordability, insufficiencies, and of environmental inefficiencies in housing stock, emergencies on as well as support autonomy and older people social connection; • Reduction of air d.
From page 236...
... To achieve the health, social service, person- public health, health goal of the best possible health for centered health care, and long- care, long-term care, older people, governments, over the term care systems designed to and social services next 5 years, should develop strategies extend years of good health • Interventions at to increase investments in robust and support the diverse health the population and public health systems that build and needs of older people individual levels to lead collective actions for promoting reduce underlying health at the population level and risk factors for across the life course. aging and chronic a.
From page 237...
... To catalyze such coordination a shift, actions to be taken by 2027 • Primary care include the following: • Comprehensive a. Health systems, in concert with and shared health communities and the people they records and a goal- serve, should adopt affordable, based care plan accessible, culturally appropriate • Collaboration with models, including geriatric care social services models, for providing person to address social centered, integrated care for older determinants of people facing functional limitations, health multimorbidity, frailty, and complex • Primary care care needs.
From page 238...
... Governments systems to ensure that people prioritizes care should work with health and longreceive the care they require delivery in the term care systems and researchers in the setting they desire for a setting the person to develop strategies for making life of meaning and dignity chooses, to the available culturally sensitive, person extent possible; centered, and equitable long-term respects individual care. To the extent possible, strategies autonomy and should honor people's preferences maintains dignity; about care settings, enabling them to and attends to care age within their home or community quality and the risk when possible.


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