A/RES/72/144
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
ensuring that the use of such services does not expose older persons to financial
hardship, with a special emphasis on the poor, vulnerable and marginalize d;
31. Urges Member States to develop, implement and evaluate policies and
programmes that promote healthy and active ageing and the highest attainable
standard of health and well-being for older persons and to develop health care for
older persons as part of primary care in the existing national health systems;
32. Recognizes the importance of training, education and capacity-building of
the health workforce, including for home-based care;
33. Encourages Member States to ensure that the principle of
non-discrimination on the basis of age is incorporated and upheld in health policies
and programmes and that the implementation of such policies and programmes is
regularly monitored;
34. Urges Member States to strengthen intersectoral policy frameworks and
institutional mechanisms, as appropriate, for the integrated management of the
prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, including health promotion,
health care and social welfare services, in order to address the needs of older persons;
35. Encourages Member States to provide services and support to older
persons, including grandparents, who have assumed responsibility for children who
were abandoned or whose parents are deceased, have migrated or are otherwise unable
to care for their dependants;
36. Calls upon Member States to address the issue of the well-being of and
adequate health care for older persons, as well as any cases of neglect, abuse and
violence against older persons, in particular older women, by designing and
implementing more effective prevention strategies and stronger laws and by
developing coherent and comprehensive policy frameworks to address these problems
and their underlying factors;
37. Also calls upon Member States to take concrete measures to further protect
and assist older persons in emergency situations, in accordance with the Madrid Plan
of Action and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030; 10
38. Stresses that, in complementing national development efforts, enhanced
international cooperation, in particular North-South cooperation, which is
complemented by South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation,
is essential to support developing countries in implementing the Madrid Plan of
Action, while recognizing the importance of such assistance as well as the provision
of financial assistance;
39. Encourages Member States to establish or to strengthen strategic
approaches and policy options in relation to the physical and mental health of older
persons in the light of new and emerging disease patterns, notably non-communicable
diseases, as well as in relation to increased life expectancy, with particular attention
to promoting good health and addressing health needs across a care continuum,
including prevention, detection and diagnosis, management and rehabilitation,
treatment and palliative care, with the aim of achieving comprehensive health -care
coverage for older persons;
40. Encourages the international community, including international and
bilateral donors, to enhance international cooperation to support national efforts to
eradicate poverty, in keeping with internationally agreed goals, in order to achieve
sustainable and adequate social and economic support for older persons, while
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