A/RES/73/143 Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing psychological and physical aspects of ageing and the special needs of older women and older persons with disabilities; 26. Also encourages Member States to ensure that older persons have access to information about their rights so as to enable them to participate fully and justly in their societies and to claim full enjoyment of all human rights; 27. Calls upon Member States to develop their national capacity for monitoring and enforcing the rights of older persons, in consultation wit h all sectors of society, including organizations of older persons, through, inter alia, national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, where applicable; 28. Also calls upon Member States to strengthen and incorporate a gender and disability perspective into all policy actions on ageing, as well as to address and eliminate discrimination on the basis of age, sex or disability, and recommends that Member States engage with all sectors of society, in particular with relevant organizations with an interest in the matter, including organizations of older persons, women and persons with disabilities, in changing negative stereotypes about older persons, in particular older women and older persons with disabilities, and promote positive images of older persons; 29. Acknowledges that universal health coverage implies that all people, including older persons, have access, without discrimination, to every country ’s determined sets of needed promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitativ e basic health services and essential, safe, affordable, effective and quality medicines, while ensuring that the use of such services does not expose older persons to financial hardship, with a special emphasis on the poor, vulnerable and marginalized; 30. 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 health systems; 31. Recognizes the importance of training, education and capacity-building of the health workforce, including paid care workers and unpaid caregivers, for home based care; 32. Encourages Member States to ensure that the principle of non-discrimination on the basis of age is incorporated and upheld in health and other policies and programmes and that the implementation of such policies and programmes is regularly monitored; 33. 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 services and social welfare services, in order to address the needs of older persons; 34. 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; 35. Calls upon Member States to address the issue of the well-being of and adequate health-care services 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; 6/9 18-22179