A/RES/71/164
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
28. Recognizes the importance of training, education and capacity-building
of the health workforce, including for home -based care;
29. 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;
30. 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;
31. 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
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32. 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;
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. Recommends that Governments involve older persons and their
organizations in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of policies and
programmes that affect them;
35. 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
bearing in mind that countries have the primary responsibility for their own
economic and social development;
36. Encourages the international community to support national efforts to
forge stronger partnerships with civil society, including organizations of older
persons, academia, research foundations, community-based organizations, including
caregivers, and the private sector, in an effort to help to build capacity on ageing
issues;
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