Overview

In this Nature Ageing World View by World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, learn more about how the Platform enables the collaborative knowledge sharing crucial to achieving the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing's vision: a world in which all people can live long, healthy lives. The ultimate decisions about how to foster healthy aging rest with national governments and civil society. Being able to access the wealth of diverse knowledge in different languages and relevant to different disciplines and contexts can facilitate that process. Knowledge needs will evolve, and the Platform will evolve in response. The Decade Platform works to bring together diverse knowledge to improve the lives of older people, their families and communities, now and in the future. Transforming our world to improve the quality of life for aging populations is a moral, social and economic imperative for current and future generations. The Sustainable Development Goals provide the vision, the UN Decade of Healthy Aging the framework and the Decade Platform the vehicle for ensuring that none of us are left behind as we age.