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The Capability Approach and the WHO healthy ageing framework (for the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing)

This commentary discusses the WHO definition of health ageing in terms of functional abilities, and the problem definition and evidence-based public health response framework outlined in the 2015 WHO Report on Ageing and Health. After identifying the neglect of older people in health policy at natio...

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Autores principales: Venkatapuram, Sridhar, Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, Jotheeswaran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10615052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37902511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad126
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description This commentary discusses the WHO definition of health ageing in terms of functional abilities, and the problem definition and evidence-based public health response framework outlined in the 2015 WHO Report on Ageing and Health. After identifying the neglect of older people in health policy at national and global levels, some data are presented on the majority of COVID-19 deaths being older people. The discussion then focuses on the underlying ethical and analytical framework of functional abilities provided by the Capability Approach. The approach is presented as distinguishing between achievement and capability, the ethical significance of recognising both, and its inclusion of surrounding social conditions from local to global in assessing wellbeing of older people’s functional abilities. Measurement of functional abilities, informed by the Capabilities Approach, is stated to be an enormous and crucial task in establishing a global baseline, and making progress in improving the health and wellbeing of older people.
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spelling pubmed-106150522023-10-31 The Capability Approach and the WHO healthy ageing framework (for the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing) Venkatapuram, Sridhar Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, Jotheeswaran Age Ageing Commentary This commentary discusses the WHO definition of health ageing in terms of functional abilities, and the problem definition and evidence-based public health response framework outlined in the 2015 WHO Report on Ageing and Health. After identifying the neglect of older people in health policy at national and global levels, some data are presented on the majority of COVID-19 deaths being older people. The discussion then focuses on the underlying ethical and analytical framework of functional abilities provided by the Capability Approach. The approach is presented as distinguishing between achievement and capability, the ethical significance of recognising both, and its inclusion of surrounding social conditions from local to global in assessing wellbeing of older people’s functional abilities. Measurement of functional abilities, informed by the Capabilities Approach, is stated to be an enormous and crucial task in establishing a global baseline, and making progress in improving the health and wellbeing of older people. Oxford University Press 2023-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10615052/ /pubmed/37902511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad126 Text en © World Health Organization, 2023. All rights reserved. The World Health Organization has granted the Publisher permission for the reproduction of this article. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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