We’re back from the last day of the @UNECE Ministerial Conference on #Ageing, starting with the Opening of the Ministerial Segment!
✅ Follow this thread for key highlights throughout the day
✅ Or join the livestream: mipaa20rome.it/live-streaming
#AddingLifeToYears #MIPAA20Rome
Ministers from the host of #MIPAA20Rome, Italy, are now speaking on the challenges but also the opportunities of population ageing.
We are on average living longer than ever before. The @UNDecadeAgeing is our opportunity to live these extra years with health & well-being.
@dienekeita (@UNFPA) provides a strong message: we must do for older people now what we want for ourselves when we are older.
#MIPAA, #MIPAA20Rome, and the @UNDecadeAgeing all show there is political will to improve the lives of older people. That will must be backed by action.
Edmundo Martinho (Chair of @UNECE Standing Working Group on Ageing) highlights main elements of draft Ministerial Declaration (w/ significant synergies with @UNDecadeAgeing)
✅ Promoting active & #HealthyAgeing
✅ Ensuring access to #LongTermCare
✅ Mainstreaming ageing
@UNECE @pu_unece #ICYMI: @WHO recently published a framework to support countries to achieve an integrated continuum of #LongTermCare.
Such a framework is essential to improving the lives of older people, their families & communities during the @UNDecadeAgeing.
👉 decadeofhealthyageing.org/find-knowledge…
During the Ministerial Segment, we also heard a message from @antonioguterres (@UN Secretary-General), echoing the need to address both the challenges 𝙖𝙣𝙙 opportunities of population ageing ⬇️
#MIPAA20Rome
#Collaboration: We’re moving into a high-level panel & dialogue between Ministers + civil society representatives on building forward from #COVID19.
@policydeb (@AARP) opens the session with a strong statement & call to do better, clearly differentiating between goals & actions.
@natasha_azzmus (@WHO_Europe) outlines 3 asks drawing on lessons learned from #COVID19:
👉 Guarantee access to care & medicine
👉 Ensure financing of health services & systems
👉 Build back fairer & #LeaveNoOneBehind
… with the @UNDecadeAgeing a 🔑 collaboration opportunity.
@natasha_azzmus also highlighted the crucial importance of #MentalHealth in fostering #HealthyAgeing.
Today, @WHO launched the #WorldMentalHealthReport which highlights that 1️⃣3️⃣% of people aged 70 and above live with depression and anxiety.
👉 who.int/teams/mental-h…
@lisapaus (@BMFSFJ) applauds the work of the Joint Forum of Civil Society & Scientific Research at #MIPAA20Rome to produce a joint declaration.
Absolutely – truly fostering #HealthyAgeing will only be possible through the collaboration of diverse stakeholders. #AddingLifeToYears
@lisapaus @BMFSFJ @lisapaus also highlighted 5 areas to address in the wake of #COVID19:
🔶 #Loneliness (bit.ly/EndSIL)
🔶 Develop care (bit.ly/platform-ltc)
🔶 Digital inclusion (bit.ly/wsis22-ha)
🔶 Intergenerational solidarity (#AWorld4AllAges)
🔶 A #rights based approach
@lisapaus @BMFSFJ It is also great to have youth voices represented by @Maria_Alcaz (@Youth_Forum).
Fostering #HealthyAgeing during @UNDecadeAgeing is about improving the lives of current 𝙖𝙣𝙙 future generations of older people.
It's ⏰ to create #AWorld4AllAges! bit.ly/combatageism
@lisapaus @BMFSFJ @Maria_Alcaz @Youth_Forum Finally, @mjkucharczyk (@AGE_PlatformEU) ends with a strong focus on protecting the rights of people of all ages – younger or older – and including them in decision making processes.
Intergenerational solidarity is key. #AWorld4AllAges
👉 bit.ly/combatageism
#MIPAA20Rome continues with the First Ministerial Roundtable on #LongTermCare and support for carers & families – a key @UNDecadeAgeing action area.
Vice-chair: Estonia 🇪🇪. Opening interventions will be given by USA 🇺🇸, Malta 🇲🇹, Switzerland 🇨🇭 & Türkiye 🇹🇷.
We're back from #MIPAA20Rome where the Second Ministerial Roundtable on 'Mainstreaming ageing to advance a society for all ages' is taking place.
Vice-chair: Portugal 🇵🇹. Opening interventions by Republic of Moldova 🇲🇩, Serbia 🇷🇸, the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, Republic of Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
Congratulations to Ministries & participants of #MIPAA20Rome for the adoption of the Ministerial Declaration!
An exciting achievement that brings us closer to achieving the goals & vision of the @UNDecadeAgeing. #AddingLifeToYears @pu_unece
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