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;
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