Consultant- (Research Coordinator) Extending the Benefits of Healthy

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Purpose of consultancy The consultant will provide technical expertise and contribute to the project on “Extending the benefits of healthy ageing across the life course”, conduct research, organize related meetings and workshops and contribute to progress and technical reports. Background   WHO mandates The WHO Global Strategy and Action Plan on Ageing and Health endorsed in 2016, and the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021-2030 action plan endorsed in 2020, identifies strategic objectives to enable older adults to optimize their functional abilities and priority areas of action within each country:  strengthening integrated care, long term care, age friendly environments and combatting ageism.    The focus of the Strategy and Decade is on older adults aged 60 years and over.   Yet common questions posed by stakeholders include: when does healthy ageing begin?  with increasing life expectancy, what choices do people have on how to live these “extra years”? Longer lives require promoting healthy ageing and greater flexibility of systems across the life course.   This requires efforts to connect life stages, and evaluate the evidence to operationalize a life course approach to healthy ageing and development. WHO can identify, channel and consolidate evidence on ways to improve the trajectory of healthy ageing,...

Uganda : International

2022-12-10

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