Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing
The WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing is a group of global experts that advances research and clinical practice related to Healthy Ageing.
Meeting reports
28 August 2022
WHO clinical consortium on healthy ageing 2021: report of consortium meeting held virtually, 5-6 November...
The 2021 annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA) was the seventh gathering, held virtually...
29 December 2021
WHO clinical consortium on healthy ageing 2020: report of consortium meeting, held virtually, 18-19 November...
The 2020 annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA), held virtually on 18–19 November 2020,...
28 August 2020
WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing 2019
The 2019 annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA), held at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland...
29 August 2019
WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing 2018
The 2018 annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA), held in Geneva 11–12 December...
29 August 2018
WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing 2017
The 2017 annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA) was the second gathering of this international...
Key documents
2 January 2017
Global strategy and action plan on ageing and health
The Strategy is a significant step forward in establishing a framework for Member States, the WHO Secretariat and partners to contribute to achieving the...
29 September 2015
World report on ageing and health
Comprehensive public health action on population ageing is urgently needed. This will require fundamental shifts, not just in the things we do, but in...
Evidence on Healthy Ageing - Journal articles
Evidence is needed to improve our collective understanding of Healthy Ageing
and how it can be measured and evaluated. WHO contributes to advancing the research by producing new research and gathering the existing evidence, across all levels of the organization.
The following articles are organized by strategic objective of the Global strategy and action plan on ageing and health 2016-2020.
Please note that the articles below are for information only and do not represent an endorsement of their concepts by the World Health Organization.
Journal Special Issues
Commit to action
Medical and Assistive Health Technology: Meeting the Needs of Aging Populations
The Gerontologist, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_2, April 2016, Pages S293–S302,
Actions required to implement integrated care for older people in the community using the World Health Organization's ICOPE approach: A global Delphi consensus study
PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205533
Age-friendly environments
Long-term care
Online Training and Support Programs Designed to Improve Mental Health and Reduce Burden Among Caregivers of People With Dementia: A Systematic Review
J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2018 Mar; 19(3): 200-206
iSupport, an online training and support program for caregivers of people with dementia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial in India
Trials volume 19, Article number: 271 (2018)
Metrics, Monitoring, and Research
Health ageing: evidence that improvement is possible at every age
European Geriatric Medicine Volume 7, Issue 4, July 2016, Pages 291-292
Longitudinal Patterns of Physical Activity Among Older Adults: A Latent Transition Analysis
American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 187, Issue 7, July 2018, Pages 1549–1558
Evidence for the domains supporting the construct of intrinsic capacity
The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Volume 73, Issue 12, December 2018, Pages 1653–1660
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