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:
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
UN
UN Second World Assembly on Ageing: The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA)
UNECE Review and Appraisal of MIPAA Implementation
2017 UNECE Country Reports on Active Ageing
EU
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)