Health and Long-Term Care Needs in a Context of Rapid Population Aging
This paper identifies key challenges in health care and long-term care as populations age and provides examples of how countries are responding to them. The paper focuses on developing countries that are aging fast, where anticipation and action are especially important. The paper highlights the need for a holistic strategy that focuses on strengthening health care and long-term care systems and achieving universal care coverage, moving from a disease-centered approach to a person-centered one. But such a strategy should not focus exclusively on the older population. To solve the challenges brought by population aging, younger populations should not be forgotten. How people age is, to a large extent, determined by their health earlier in life and the choices they made when young. The range of policies should therefore promote healthy lifestyles, like physical activity and healthy eating, throughout the entire life course. A healthy aging agenda contributes to containing the costs associated with aging populations.
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| Format: | Report biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2024-10-16
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| Subjects: | LABOR HEALTH AND SAFETY CONDITIONS, HEALTH CARE MARKET, PASSIVE LABOR MARKET POLICIES, HEALTH FINANCING, GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, SDG 3, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099535209302435848/IDU1c5ef3d671511b14dcb1a2e91fd9f1fb0c074 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42256 |
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| Summary: | This paper identifies key challenges
in health care and long-term care as populations age and
provides examples of how countries are responding to them.
The paper focuses on developing countries that are aging
fast, where anticipation and action are especially
important. The paper highlights the need for a holistic
strategy that focuses on strengthening health care and
long-term care systems and achieving universal care
coverage, moving from a disease-centered approach to a
person-centered one. But such a strategy should not focus
exclusively on the older population. To solve the challenges
brought by population aging, younger populations should not
be forgotten. How people age is, to a large extent,
determined by their health earlier in life and the choices
they made when young. The range of policies should therefore
promote healthy lifestyles, like physical activity and
healthy eating, throughout the entire life course. A healthy
aging agenda contributes to containing the costs associated
with aging populations. |
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