UNECE Ageing Policies Database

Policy interventions to meet the needs of older persons and bring societal development into harmony with demographic change span across many policy areas including education, health, labour and social affairs. They address challenges such as ageism and take steps towards creating enabling environments for active and healthy ageing. The UNECE Ageing Policies Database allows you to browse ageing-related policy interventions developed by UNECE member States across Europe, North America and Central Asia. The database is a tool for knowledge sharing, peer learning and monitoring of policy developments over time. It showcases policy innovations in the field of ageing across 14 broad policy themes. Developed by the UNECE Population Unit and the UNECE Standing Working Group on Ageing it provides easy access to a wealth of policy actions, searchable by country, policy theme or policy instrument.

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UN Decade of Healthy Ageing's database of promising interventions to prevent and respond to abuse of older people

This database is the first product of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing's intervention accelerator initiative on abuse of older people, which aims to develop a portfolio of effective approaches to prevent and respond to the abuse of older people. The database contains 89 promising interventions identified through a rigorous search and screening of nearly 14 000 scientific studies. The aims of these interventions include: (1) improving knowledge of abuse of older people among professionals to increase the likelihood of detection and reporting; (2) raising awareness of the issue; (3) reducing mental health symptoms among victims of abuse; and (4) preventing abuse. Older people who have experienced or are at risk of abuse were the main targets of these interventions, although a significant proportion were also aimed at caregivers, perpetrators of abuse and institutions. Over half of the identified interventions were implemented in the United States of America, which emphasizes the need to conduct more research in low- and middle-income countries. The new database is a rich repository of evidence-based interventions to address abuse of older people that can inform future research and practice in the field by governments, international organizations, civil society organizations, academics, practitioners, and funders. The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing intervention accelerator on abuse of older people will build on this database by further evaluating these interventions for refinement, adaptation and real-world testing.

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U.S. Surgeon General Resource Library on Combating Loneliness and Advancing Social Connection

In a new Surgeon General’s Advisory, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy warns about the public health crisis that loneliness, isolation, and disconnection pose to the American public. This Resource Library supports the Advisory by outlining recommendations and useful resources to support different stakeholder groups in the United States implement the Framework for a National Strategy to Advance Social Connection. Individuals and organizations can use this framework to address the public health problem of social disconnection and strengthen social connection. The recommendations and resources outlined in this Resource Library can also help stakeholders around the world combat loneliness and promote social connection in their own contexts.

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