WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing 2019

Overview

The 2019 annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA), held at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on 21–22 November 2019, was the fifth gathering of an international group of clinical leaders, drawn from the full breadth of the field of ageing to progress the work agreed by Member States in World Health Assembly resolution WHA69.3: The global strategy and action plan on ageing and health 2016–2020: towards a world in which everyone can live a long and healthy life. Following the work of Member States in 2016, WHO published in 2017 the Guidelines on integrated care for older people. Integrated care for older people (ICOPE) reflects a community-based approach that will help to reorient health and social services towards a more person-centred and coordinated model of care that supports optimizing functional ability for older people. This programme supports achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and universal health coverage, by committing to reduce the number of older people who are care dependant by 15 million by 2025.