The Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA), a forum of global experts that advances research and clinical practice related to Healthy Ageing, was established by WHO in 2015. The consortium meets as a full group once a year, with additional smaller working group meetings organized as needed. The 2021 meeting will take place on the 3 and 4 November 2021, being held virtually for the second year in a row. Approximately 70 experts from all regions around the world joined the meeting, alongside around 30 colleagues from WHO’s headquarters, regional and country offices.
The objectives of the meeting are to:
- inform activities of the Decade of Healthy Ageing
- discuss findings from the validation study of the intrinsic capacity concept
- report on the ready phase results of the Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) approach implementation pilot study and discuss the next phase
- introduce work on oral health
- discuss the continuum of care for healthy ageing.