Your monthly UN Decade of Healthy Ageing update
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Welcome to your UN Decade of Healthy Ageing update for June!
In this newsletter, learn more about:
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TODAY: Last chance to make a nomination for the Healthy Ageing 50
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Are you, or someone you know, a leader transforming the world to be a better place to grow older? Don't forget to make a nomination for the Healthy Ageing 50 by 30 June 2022, 23:59 CEST!
The Healthy Ageing 50 is a new UN Decade of Healthy Ageing initiative aiming to celebrate leaders who have contributed to fostering healthy ageing in their respective areas of work – whether within administrations, organizations, universities, businesses, local communities, and more.
Nominations can be made in English, French, Spanish, or Russian. The Healthy Ageing 50 will be announced by a high-level UN panel at an event in September 2022.
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The Healthy Ageing 50 initiative is supported by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the World Economic Forum (the Forum), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Learn from others and share what you know on the Decade's improved knowledge exchange Platform
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The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing's knowledge exchange Platform was launched last year to help forge the new collaborations and connections needed to make the Decade a success.
The Decade Platform has now gone through a major update to make the site more useful for you – whether you want to find, share, or produce knowledge on ageing.
No matter who you are or where you work, the Decade Platform is here to support you to improve the lives of older people, their families, and communities. Visit the Platform today to learn from others and share what you know – now with over 600 contributions!
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Age-friendly Environments: Creating better places in which to grow older
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Exciting work is being done around the world to create age-friendly environments – better places in which to grow, live, work, play, and age. Here's a quick summary of some of what is going on:
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The World Urban Forum organised by UN-Habitat is taking place in Katowice, Poland, where a roundtable on older persons was held. Katowice is also a GNAFCC member!
The AFE-ECHO programme, a recently concluded learning cycle for leaders on developing age-friendly environments, is being developed for French- and Spanish-speaking audiences.
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Creating age-friendly environments is an important area for action during the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing. Please help us support your work by sharing what you're doing on the Decade Platform, or by contacting us!
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More opportunities to get involved
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11 July 2022: World Population Day
Population ageing offers significant opportunities if societies prepare to unlock them. On this day, advocate to recognise the contributions and support the needs of current and future generations of older people.
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In case you missed it: events, publications, and more
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15 - 17 June 2022: UNECE Ministerial Conference on Ageing
Ministers from the UN Economic Commission for Europe region gathered to mark progress and identify next steps to foster healthy ageing.
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