The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the decade of Healthy Aging (2021-2030) in alignment with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDO) to ensure that all older adults can fulfill their potential with dignity and equality in appropriate environments. Healthy aging represents a continuous process to develop and maintain the functional capacity that allows well-being in old age. Functional capacity is composed of a people's intrinsic capacity (combination of all physical and mental capacities), the characteristics of the environment that arise from that capacity (factors in the outside world that form the context of life), and the interactions between the people with these characteristics.
Maintaining functional capacity in older people is a public health priority, and one of the greatest challenges has to do with measuring and estimating indicators that reflect how people age, the trajectories of intrinsic capacity and functional capacity, as well as the impact of policies and actions that promote healthy aging. That is why the WHO model proposes to understand aging from a perspective that also considers aspects such as happiness, satisfaction, and the realization of personal projects as central elements for healthy aging.
The objective of this Research Topic is to highlight the various ways of seeing and understanding healthy aging in broad and heterogeneous contexts, in such a way that it serves for the transfer of knowledge, evidence for future research, and for the generation of interventions that favor aging healthy and well-being in old age. It also seeks to be a space where the conceptual and methodological challenges involved in measuring healthy aging are made visible and discussed, in order to propose possible solutions and recommendations that serve the scientific community to promote better and innovative ways of measuring, analyzing, and promoting healthy aging.
Works with multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches from fields such as medicine, epidemiology, public health, geriatrics, geroscience, social sciences, and other similar ones are welcome, where quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods are used, in thematic lines such as, for example:
• Development and evaluation of healthy aging indices
• Healthy aging trajectories
• Challenges in measuring healthy aging
• Functional capacity and its relationship with intrinsic capacity
• Aging and healthy environments
• Healthy aging phenotype
• Public policies and interventions in healthy aging
• Promotion of healthy aging
In addition, those works that include gender perspectives and socioeconomic inequalities in healthy aging in their studies are of special interest.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the decade of Healthy Aging (2021-2030) in alignment with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDO) to ensure that all older adults can fulfill their potential with dignity and equality in appropriate environments. Healthy aging represents a continuous process to develop and maintain the functional capacity that allows well-being in old age. Functional capacity is composed of a people's intrinsic capacity (combination of all physical and mental capacities), the characteristics of the environment that arise from that capacity (factors in the outside world that form the context of life), and the interactions between the people with these characteristics.
Maintaining functional capacity in older people is a public health priority, and one of the greatest challenges has to do with measuring and estimating indicators that reflect how people age, the trajectories of intrinsic capacity and functional capacity, as well as the impact of policies and actions that promote healthy aging. That is why the WHO model proposes to understand aging from a perspective that also considers aspects such as happiness, satisfaction, and the realization of personal projects as central elements for healthy aging.
The objective of this Research Topic is to highlight the various ways of seeing and understanding healthy aging in broad and heterogeneous contexts, in such a way that it serves for the transfer of knowledge, evidence for future research, and for the generation of interventions that favor aging healthy and well-being in old age. It also seeks to be a space where the conceptual and methodological challenges involved in measuring healthy aging are made visible and discussed, in order to propose possible solutions and recommendations that serve the scientific community to promote better and innovative ways of measuring, analyzing, and promoting healthy aging.
Works with multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches from fields such as medicine, epidemiology, public health, geriatrics, geroscience, social sciences, and other similar ones are welcome, where quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods are used, in thematic lines such as, for example:
• Development and evaluation of healthy aging indices
• Healthy aging trajectories
• Challenges in measuring healthy aging
• Functional capacity and its relationship with intrinsic capacity
• Aging and healthy environments
• Healthy aging phenotype
• Public policies and interventions in healthy aging
• Promotion of healthy aging
In addition, those works that include gender perspectives and socioeconomic inequalities in healthy aging in their studies are of special interest.
