WHO clinical consortium on healthy ageing 2021: report of consortium meeting held virtually, 5-6 November 2021

Overview

The 2021 annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA) was the seventh gathering, held virtually this year, of an international multidisciplinary group of clinical experts, academics, policy makers and civil societies drawn from the full breadth of the field of ageing, to progress the work agreed by Member States under the 2016 WHO Global strategy and action plan on ageing and health. Six panels of presentation and discussion took place across two days (3 and 4 November):

• United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030)
• validation of the intrinsic capacity concept
• biomarkers of intrinsic capacity
• oral health
• ICOPE pilot programme and implementation scale-up
• the way forward.