WHO Framework on NCDs, Mental Health Conditions

November 2022 CommonAge welcomed the opportunity to contribute to WHO’s web-based consultation on the Zero Draft of the WHO Framework for Meaningful Engagement of People Living with Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health Conditions.

The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: Global Perspectives

Published February 2023:

The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st-century. It focuses on three priority areas: older persons and development; advancing health and well-being into old age; and ensuring enabling and supportive environments. This book brings together global perspectives on the MIPAA and focusses on and assesses the success and failures of governments to implement its recommendations.

We submitted to two chapters on the progress or otherwise of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific nations, and also in the Asia regions.