Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
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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 stereot ypes about older
persons, in particular older women and older persons with disabilities, and promote
positive narratives of all older persons;
31. 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 rehabilitative 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;
32. 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;
33. Recognizes the importance of training, education, lifelong learning and
capacity-building of the health workforce, including paid care workers and unpaid
caregivers, for home-based care;
34. 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;
35. Urges Member States to strengthen intersectoral policy frameworks and
institutional mechanisms, as appropriate, for the integrated management of th e
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;
36. 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, have been displaced,
including in the context of humanitarian emergencies, or are otherwise unable to care
for their dependants;
37. 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 an d
implementing more effective prevention strategies and stronger laws and by
developing coherent and comprehensive policy frameworks to address these problems
and their underlying factors;
38. Also calls upon Member States to take concrete measures, in accordance
with national circumstances and, as appropriate, international humanitarian law, to
further protect and assist older persons in emergency situations, and invites all States
to promote a culture of protection, taking into account the particular ne eds of older
persons, in accordance with the Madrid Plan of Action and the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 18 by, inter alia, including older persons in
disaster risk reduction and national and local emergency planning and response
frameworks, collecting and using data disaggregated by age, sex and disability for
policy design and implementation, as well as carrying out risk and vulnerabilities
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