Vincent Bronson

Guide to Healthy Ageing Diet Vincent Bronson

Every person - in every country in the world - should have the opportunity to live a long and healthy life. Yet, the environments in which we live can favour health or be harmful to it. Environments are highly influential on our behaviour, our exposure to health risks (for example air pollution, violence), our access to quality health and social care and the opportunities that ageing brings. Healthy Ageing is about creating the environments and opportunities that enable people to be and do what they value throughout their lives. Everybody can experience Healthy Ageing. Being free of disease or infirmity is not a requirement for Healthy Ageing as many older adults have one or more health conditions that, when well controlled, have little influence on their wellbeing. WHO defines Healthy Ageing "as the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age". Functional ability is about having the capabilities that enable all people to be and do what they have reason to value.