OECD Health Working Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership health studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
- ISSN: 18152015 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18152015
Policies for Healthy Ageing
An Overview
This paper reviews policies in the area of healthy ageing. With the ageing of OECD countries’ population
over coming decades, maintaining health in old age will become increasingly important. Successful
policies in this area can increase the potential labour force and the supply of non-market services to others.
They can also delay the need for longer-term care for the elderly. A first section briefly defines what is
meant by healthy ageing and discusses similar concepts – such as “active ageing”. The paper then groups
policies into four different types and within each, it describes the range of individual types of programmes
that can be brought to bear to enhance improved health of the elderly. A key policy issue in this area
concerns whether such programmes have a positive effect on health outcomes and whether they are costeffective.
JEL:
I18: Health, Education, and Welfare / Health / Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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