Active and Healthy Aging After COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal and Other European Countries: Time to Rethink Strategies and Foster Action

The population aging in Europe imposes challenges to societies that require adaptations and responses at various levels to minimize impacts and figuring out opportunities. Portugal has been committed to the World Health Organization and European Union's values and policy frameworks concerning a...

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Published inFrontiers in public health Vol. 9; p. 700279
Main Authors Costa, Andreia, Câmara, Gisele, de Arriaga, Miguel Telo, Nogueira, Paulo, Miguel, José Pereira
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 02.07.2021
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active and healthy aging
COVID-19
Europe
Healthy Aging
Humans
Pandemics - prevention & control
policy and institutional actions
Portugal
Portugal - epidemiology
Public Health
SARS-CoV-2
Portugal
Europe
COVID-19
active and healthy aging
policy and institutional actions
Portugal
Europe
public health
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Summary:The population aging in Europe imposes challenges to societies that require adaptations and responses at various levels to minimize impacts and figuring out opportunities. Portugal has been committed to the World Health Organization and European Union's values and policy frameworks concerning active and healthy aging. In 2017, an inter-ministerial working group developed the National Strategy for Active and Healthy Aging. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic that exposed the vulnerabilities of older populations, the launch of the Decade of Healthy Aging 2021-2030 and its baseline report and the 2018 Active Aging Index Analytical Report may constitute an opportunity to strategically think about the aging of the population as a national purpose in Portugal and in the other European countries that face similar challenges.
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Reviewed by: Alessandro Stievano, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy; Andrea Poscia, ASUR Marche, Italy
Edited by: Giuseppe Liotta, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
This article was submitted to Aging and Public Health, a section of the journal Frontiers in Public Health
ISSN:2296-2565
2296-2565
DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2021.700279