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Supporting Healthy Ageing through Digital Technology: resources, webinars, and initiatives
As the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, digital technologies are playing increasingly central roles in people's lives and wellbeing, including for older people, their families, and the communities in which they live.
In this themed newsletter on supporting healthy ageing through digital technology, find out about resources, webinars, and initiatives that address different ways of harnessing technology towards creating a world in which all people can live long and healthy lives.
In this issue:
Catch up on an online conversation on the Decade of Healthy Ageing Platform
Find out more about healthy ageing initiatives that ran at the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2021. Access three resources on using mobile phone technology to support healthy ageing: mAgeing, mDementia, and the ICOPE Handbook app
Catch up on an online conversation on the Platform: digital knowledge exchange and community building for the Decade
What do we need to know to improve the lives of older people, their families, and their communities? The Decade of Healthy Ageing Platform is a collaborative digital space designed to help Decade stakeholders find, share, and produce the knowledge needed to generate impact and create a world for all ages.
Do you want to find out more about the Platform? Watch a recorded session of the International Federation on Ageing's Global Café series which hosted a conversation on the Platform as a vehicle for change.
Watch the webinar recording
Explore the Platform
World Summit on the Information Society 2021: Hackathon and Innovation Prize
The annual World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum brings together a global community that works to achieve sustainable development through information and communication technologies (ICTs). The WSIS Forum is co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD as a multi-stakeholder mechanism for exchanging and creating knowledge, implementing activities, and facilitating cross-sectoral partnerships to advance development goals through ICTs.
A special WSIS Forum track on ICTs and Older Persons has run since 2020 in collaboration with the Global Coalition on Ageing (GCOA), ITU, WHO, UNDESA and other stakeholders. This year, the special track ran an online hackathon and launched a healthy ageing innovation prize to catalyze new ideas for using digital technologies to protect and promote the health and rights of older people.
Online Hackathon: Ageing Better with ICTs
An online hackathon, 'Ageing Better with ICTs', was launched to explore and expand the role of technology in achieving healthier ageing. Attracting more than 1100 participants from across 48 countries, the hackathon helped ideate ICT solutions in four areas: Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline, frailty, transportation and mobility, and financial tools for longevity. 4 winners from each area were announced and awarded on 17 May.
Learn more about the Hackathon and winners
Healthy Ageing Innovation Prize
The WSIS Forum 2021 also launched the Healthy Ageing Innovation Prize. The Prize aims to recognize ICT practitioners for excellence in supporting innovative and sustainable solutions to help older people thrive. 12 finalists were shortlisted for final review after more than 80 submissions were received.
Find out more about the prize
Mobile phone technology for healthy ageing: mAgeing, mDementia, and the ICOPE Handbook app
Mobile phones are a common way of accessing digital connectivity and remote help in many regions around the world. WHO has developed three tools to support countries in using mobile phone technology to promote healthy ageing.
Mobile Health for Ageing and Dementia (mAgeing & mDementia)
The Be He@lthy Be Mobile initiative, a partnership led by WHO and ITU, have developed two handbooks designed to provide countries with guidance on how to develop, integrate, implement, and evaluate programmes that use mobile technologies to provide health information about dementia and healthy ageing.
Be He@lthy Be Mobile: A handbook on how to implement mDementia
Be He@lthy Be Mobile: A handbook on how to implement mAgeing
Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) Handbook App
The ICOPE Handbook helps health and social care workers in the community and primary care implement the recommendations outlined in the ICOPE Guidelines. The Handbook describes practical care pathways which can be followed to detect declines in intrinsic capacity (physical and mental capacity) and develop a personalised care plan.
The ICOPE Handbook App guides health and social care workers step-by-step through the process of screening older people in the community, undertaking a person-centred assessment of older people’s health and social care needs, and designing a personalised care plan. The app can also be used by governments and organisations to train health and social care workers. It is available in the 6 UN languages as well as Portuguese and Vietnamese.
Download for iOS
Download for Android
An online hackathon, 'Ageing Better with ICTs', was launched to explore and expand the role of technology in achieving healthier ageing. Attracting more than 1100 participants from across 48 countries, the hackathon helped ideate ICT solutions in four areas: Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline, frailty, transportation and mobility, and financial tools for longevity. 4 winners from each area were announced and awarded on 17 May.
Learn more about the Hackathon and winners
Healthy Ageing Innovation Prize
The WSIS Forum 2021 also launched the Healthy Ageing Innovation Prize. The Prize aims to recognize ICT practitioners for excellence in supporting innovative and sustainable solutions to help older people thrive. 12 finalists were shortlisted for final review after more than 80 submissions were received.
Find out more about the prize
Mobile phone technology for healthy ageing: mAgeing, mDementia, and the ICOPE Handbook app
Mobile phones are a common way of accessing digital connectivity and remote help in many regions around the world. WHO has developed three tools to support countries in using mobile phone technology to promote healthy ageing.
Mobile Health for Ageing and Dementia (mAgeing & mDementia)
The Be He@lthy Be Mobile initiative, a partnership led by WHO and ITU, have developed two handbooks designed to provide countries with guidance on how to develop, integrate, implement, and evaluate programmes that use mobile technologies to provide health information about dementia and healthy ageing.
Be He@lthy Be Mobile: A handbook on how to implement mDementia
Be He@lthy Be Mobile: A handbook on how to implement mAgeing
Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) Handbook App
The ICOPE Handbook helps health and social care workers in the community and primary care implement the recommendations outlined in the ICOPE Guidelines. The Handbook describes practical care pathways which can be followed to detect declines in intrinsic capacity (physical and mental capacity) and develop a personalised care plan.
The ICOPE Handbook App guides health and social care workers step-by-step through the process of screening older people in the community, undertaking a person-centred assessment of older people’s health and social care needs, and designing a personalised care plan. The app can also be used by governments and organisations to train health and social care workers. It is available in the 6 UN languages as well as Portuguese and Vietnamese.
Download for iOS
Download for Android
