Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing
Within the Department for Social Determinants of Health, the Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing (DHA) Unit supports the development of social and physical environments that are responsive to demographic change and foster healthy ageing. DHA provides strategic leadership on these topics; develops evidence, norms and standards, including implementation tools; builds national capacities to address these issues; and fosters global advocacy. DHA engages a broad range of partners and networks to scale up effective action in countries, and together with the Ageing and Health Unit is the Secretariat for the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030).
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Featured publication | 10 October 2023
Connecting generations: planning and implementing interventions for intergenerational contact
This new practical guide provides step-by-step guidance for anyone who is using or wishes to use intergenerational practice to combat ageism and to promote understanding and mutual respect among generations. The guide, developed for the Global Campaign to Combat Ageism, builds on the evidence in the Global report on ageism that interventions for intergenerational contact is one of three strategies that have been proven to work in addressing ageism, along with policy and law and educational interventions.
