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Building a future-ready society so people can live long and age well

1 October 2025

How do we achieve healthy ageing through a life-cycle approach – laying the foundation for health at an early age and capitalizing on the opportunities that longevity offers Asia-Pacific countries amid rapid population ageing?

On this International Day of Older Persons, WHO Western Pacific Regional Director Dr Saia Ma'u Piukala unpacks the issue in this joint op-ed for the World Economic Forum with Lin Yang, Deputy Executive Secretary at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).

Access the editorial here.

 

 

Authors

Dr Saia Ma'u Piukala

Regional Director for the Western Pacific