"Comprehensive public health action on population ageing is urgently needed. This will require fundamental shifts, not just in the things we do, but in how we think about ageing itself. The World report on ageing and health outlines a framework for action to foster Healthy Ageing built around the new concept of functional ability. This will require a transformation of health systems away from disease based curative models and towards the provision of older-person-centred and integrated care. It will require the development, sometimes from nothing, of comprehensive systems of long term care."--Page 4 of cover.

World report on ageing and health Summary

xii, 246 p. : ill., charts, graphs, tables

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Accompanied by: 'Summary' ('Résumé', 'Resumen').
Available also online (viewed 13 Jan. 2016).

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