WHO clinical consortium on healthy ageing 2020: report of consortium meeting, held virtually, 18-19 November 2020
Overview
The 2020 annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA), held virtually on 18–19 November 2020, was the sixth 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.
The year 2020 has been very challenging worldwide due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic which has not only taken so many lives but has impacted most everyone else in some way. Spurred by the outsized impact that COVID-19 is having on older people, the Ageing and Health (AAH) unit, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health & Ageing (MCA), continues to advance the concept of healthy ageing and have worked to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic among older people.
Specific objectives of the 2020 meeting include the following.
- Report on process and preliminary results of the ICOPE implementation pilot study and discuss how to strengthen enabling activities and address challenges.
- Discuss the methodology on monitoring IC, that is, the IC score.
- Introduce the guideline development on low-back pain management for adults.
- Discuss WHO work on long-term care.
Expected outcomes include the following.
- ICOPE implementation pilot study refined.
- The methodology of IC monitoring developed.
- Guideline development on low-back pain management advanced.
- Next steps for priority work in 2021 identified.
