European active ageing resource

This section was developed over the last year of MOPACT and it acts as a gateway to core information on active ageing in Europe. It provides information to a wide range of audiences about the theory and practice of active ageing, from both inside and outside the project.

Overview

Resources available include

• Social Innovations Database – comprising 150 carefully selected social innovations which support active and healthy ageing

• The Active Ageing Index (AAI)

• Links to additional resources

The MOPACT project aimed to provide the evidence to make demographic change an asset to Europe, and the this section focuses on the wider policy context in which the project sits. Find links to key documents and strategies which also aim to deliver active and healthy ageing across the globe.

MOPACT policy briefs

The MOPACT policy briefs provide concise summaries of the MOPACT findings in relation to key policy areas. They are for all audiences, including the general public, and act as focused guides to the evidence based policies required to support ageing as a social and economic asset in the following areas:

• MoPAct Policy Brief 1 – Economic effects of population ageing

• MoPAct Policy Brief 2 – Extending working lives

• MoPAct Policy Brief 3 – Improving private pensions and retirement planning

• MoPAct Policy Brief 4 – Health and well-being

• MoPAct Policy Brief 5 – Biogerontology: a novel tool to stay healthy in old age

• MoPAct Policy Brief 6 – The built and technological environment

• MoPAct Policy Brief 7 – Potentials for active ageing by social innovation in long-term care and social support

• MoPAct Policy Brief 8 – Promoting the participation of seniors in policymaking

• MoPAct Policy Brief 9 – Social innovation and active ageing

• MoPAct Policy Brief 10 – A new approach to ageing in Europe

The underpinning evidence which the policy briefs are built on can be found in the nine separate disciplinary work packages (research fields) which the MOPACT project delivered.

Read more about each of the work package activities, partners and findings:

• Active and healthy ageing

• Extending working lives

• Health and well-being

• Biogerontology

• Built and technological environment

• Economic consequences of ageing

• Enhancing active citizenship

• Pensions, savings and financial education

• Social support and long-term care

Understanding active ageing – key resources

The challenges of active and healthy ageing are global which is reflected in work on strategy and policy in this area. The key resources to understand what active ageing means in different policy contexts and the challenges of demographic change are below.

WHO

Ageing and Life-Course Programme

Active Ageing: A Policy Framework (PDF, 1MB)

Global strategy and action plan on ageing and health

World Report on Ageing and Health

Healthy Ageing and the Sustainable Development Goals

Age-friendly World

UN

UNECE Population

UN Second World Assembly on Ageing: The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA)

UNECE Review and Appraisal of MIPAA Implementation

UNECE Active Ageing Index

UNECE Policy Briefs on Ageing

2017 UNECE Country Reports on Active Ageing

EU

EU Ageing Reports Economic and Budgetary Projections for the 28 EU Member States (2015, 2012 and 2009)

Economic Policy Committee – Working Group on Ageing Populations and Sustainability

Social Protection and Social Inclusion

EPRS The Silver Economy: Opportunities from Ageing

Supporting active ageing

A strand of MOPACT’s work reviewed and assessed initiatives which support active ageing in local, regional and national contexts. Below are links to MOPACT work in this area as well as a number of other initiatives and reports concerned with implementing active ageing in Europe.

Collections of interventions

MOPACT Social Innovations Database

European Innovation Partnership on Ageing and Healthy Ageing – Repository of Practices

WHO Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities

AFE Innovnet Repository of Practices

Innovage – European Social Innovations for Healthy Life Expectancy

EuroHealthNet Healthy Ageing in Action

Sustainability and monitoring

Monitoring and Assessment Framework for the EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing (MAFEIP)

Other relevant organisations and initiatives

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EUROFOUND)

Covenant on Demographic Change