Research · 22 November 2023 · World Health Organization

Progress report on the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing, 2021 to 2023

Selected by Stephen Watson

The first progress report on the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing: what governments have done since 2020 on ageism, age-friendly places, integrated care and long-term care.

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Key figure

More than 20%: the rise between 2020 and 2022 in countries with programs for age-friendly cities and communities, and in three other measures.

About the publisher

The United Nations agency for international public health. It leads the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, 2021 to 2030.

Useful for

Municipalities and age-friendly destination projects that want to line up with the WHO healthy-ageing framework.

Credit and license Progress report on the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing, 2021-2023. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2023. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

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