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Active ageing (active aging in the US) is a concept recently deployed by the European Commission, the World Health Organization, and used also in Human Resource Management. This concept evokes the idea of longer activity, with a higher retirement age and working practices adapted to the age of the employee.
For many years the action around rights of older persons and social activism of older adults was not anchored in a unique ideological framework. It is only in recent years that attempts to frame the global elder rights movement within an ideology began to build up. One such an attempt is the development of Ageivism [6] as an ideology of aging ...
In 1994 Kalache became a director of the World Health Organization. In 2000 he led a two-year international committee to define existing policy on population ageing, resulting in the publication of Active Ageing, a Policy Framework, released at the United Nations' World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid in 2002. [12]
Presently, there is no international legally binding instrument to protect the human rights of older persons. It is, however, been discussed since 2011 by "The Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing for the Purpose of Strengthening the Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons" (mostly referred to as the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing, OEWGA) which was established by United Nations ...
The activity theory states that optimal aging occurs when individuals participate in activities, pursuits, and relationships. The activity theory of aging , also known as the implicit theory of aging , normal theory of aging , and lay theory of aging , proposes that aging occurs with more positive outcomes when adults stay active and maintain ...
Ageing Well (Māori: Kia eke kairangi ki te taikaumātuatanga) was one of New Zealand's eleven collaborative research programmes known as National Science Challenges. Running from 2015 to 2024, the focus of Ageing Well National Science Challenge (AWNSC) research was sustaining health and wellbeing towards the end of life, particularly in Māori ...
The underlying framework for the International Year of Older Persons is the International Plan of Action on Aging, the first major international instrument on aging which was endorsed by the General Assembly in 1982 (following the World Assembly on Aging of that year). [3]
A greater number of people self-report successful ageing than those that strictly meet these criteria. [4] Successful ageing may be viewed an interdisciplinary concept, spanning both psychology and sociology, where it is seen as the transaction between society and individuals across the life span with a specific focus on the later years of life ...