Something exciting is coming for Healthy Ageing at @whoeurope.bsky.social … and the BEST is yet to come #AgeingIsLiving
@natashaazzmus.bsky.social
1️⃣ yr ago in Istanbul, countries joined @whoeurope.bsky.social to shape a new vision for #HealthyAgeing now we have a draft #AgeingIsLiving Strategy
Last wk, experts appointed by Ministries of Health from 🇫🇮🇭🇺🇮🇹🇲🇹🇵🇹🇸🇰🇸🇪🇹🇷🇬🇧🇺🇿 reviewed the Strategy
Now moving to Member State consultations
The work continues!
🙌🏻 A year after 1,000+ voices came together to talk about ageing, that input is shaping action
Through dialogue w countries, cities, civil society, & older and younger people, #AgeingIsLiving — the @whoeurope.bsky.social Strategy on Ageing — is moving forward
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@geronews.bsky.social
Wrapped up my Netherlands 🇳🇱 mission in Utrecht w/ Charlotte Marchandise from @European Public Health Association @EUPHActs
From mapping WHO courses w/ EUPHA Next to leadership, accreditation & stakeholder engagements—advancing #HealthyAgeing thu strong public health partnerships
#AgeingIsLiving
Wrapped up my duty travel of the year w/ WHO Collaborating Centres, researchers & partners @ The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Grateful for the deep dive into evidence, tools & ideas to implement the @whoeurope.bsky.social’s #AgeingIsLiving Strategy🌍
TY @natashaazzmus.bsky.social 4 support
Regions are shaping the future of healthy ageing 🌍💙
RHN members helped refine the WHO Europe’s #AgeingIsLiving Strategy:
🏘️ age-friendly communities must be local
💪 prevention sees older people as contributors
🏥 care must be integrated
🌱 ageism must be challenged
A real movement is growing.
TY to Nordic Welfare Center & Center for Agefriendly Norway for working w @whoeurope.bsky.social to bring Nordic–Baltic cities together to shape age-friendly environments
Urban planning, housing, transport, social spaces — ageing happens in all of them. This is #AgeingIsLiving in action 🌍
A special day in Budapest!
Together with @SemmelweisHu, we inaugurated the new WHO Collaborating Centre on Healthy Ageing — turning evidence into action to advance research, policy, and workforce training for healthier, more connected lives at all ages.
#AgeingIsLiving #HealthForAll
Standing by the Acropolis 🇬🇷— a symbol of resilience that has withstood the test of time
As Aristotle said “Quality is not an act; it is a habit.”
A timeless truth — because as societies age, quality in health and care must also endure, built through daily practice and purpose.
#AgeingIsLiving
Quality and safety are what turn longer lives into healthier ones — by engaging older persons and caregivers as partners, supporting independence, and preserving functional ability so people can keep doing what they value most.
#AgeingIsLiving #HealthyAgeing #WHOEurope
At the airport after my 3rd visit to Türkiye 🇹🇷 this year. Each visit strengthens trust, partnership, and shared commitment to advance #HealthyAgeing locally, nationally, and across the @Turkic_States
@whoeurope.bsky.social #AgeingIsLiving
1️⃣ Nursing home visit
At Izmir’s municipal nursing home, care goes beyond routine — with nearly a 1:2 staff–resident ratio and genuine compassion.
One woman held my hand and said she’d pray for our good health — a moment I’ll never forget.
#AgeingIsLiving #HealthyAgeing
🎙️ Joined @Stefania Ilinca in a @whoeurope.bsky.social’s podcast on how longer lives can mean healthier, more connected, and more fulfilling ones for all generations
Prevention, care, age-friendly environments & tackling ageism — because #AgeingIsLiving
#HealthyAgeing
🇷🇸 Today in Belgrade, we joined leaders to advance healthy ageing & solidarity across generations
TY @hans_kluge for your powerful message & Fabio Scano for your authentic reflections
I shared how the our @whoeurope.bsky.social’s Strategy on #AgeingIsLiving will turn values into action
🎙️ Stay tune for our @whoeurope.bsky.social #AgeingIsLiving podcast w Heidrun Mollenkopf @ageplatformeu.bsky.social & Anna Salomoni — on challenging ageism & building intergenerational solidarity
Because ageing isn’t just about growing older — it’s about living fully, @ every stage
#HealthyAgeing
Photo Group of AGE Members at the WHO Europe in Copenhagen
✅ We’ve wrapped up the #AgeingisLiving Workshop!
AGE Members were consulted, and one key takeaway is that a meaningful life should be possible at every stage of life, supported by age-friendly cities that are accessible, affordable, and welcoming to all.
Thanks #WHOEurope
@geronews.bsky.social
Workshop "Shaping the Future of Healthy Ageing", co-organised by WHO Europe and AGE.
Workshop "Shaping the Future of Healthy Ageing", co-organised by WHO Europe and AGE.
Workshop "Shaping the Future of Healthy Ageing", co-organised by WHO Europe and AGE.
Workshop "Shaping the Future of Healthy Ageing", co-organised by WHO Europe and AGE.
🔛 We are in Copenhagen for the workshop Shaping the Future of #HealthyAgeing, co-organised by @whoeurope.bsky.social and AGE.
🤝 Our Members are contributing to the future strategy #AgeingisLiving to ensure realities of older persons of today and tomorrow will be represented.
@geronews.bsky.social
At @whoeurope.bsky.social today w/ @ageplatformeu.bsky.social working to ensure our new Strategy on Ageing is grounded in the lived realities of older persons. Together we turn vision into action — because #AgeingIsLiving
@natasha_azzmus
🌍 In Bar, Montenegro, countries from #SEEHN & #CEI are engaging w the forthcoming @whoeurope.bsky.social European Strategy on #AgeingIsLiving
Together w/countries, we are prioritizing actions w the greatest impact on #HealthyAgeing and feasibility for implementation
@natashaazzmus.bsky.social
From rain to light, from strangers to family. 🌦️☀️
Walking the Camino for Walk the Talk reminded me: asking for help is not weakness but strength. Together, none of us walk alone.
#WTD25 #AgeingIsLiving #BuenCamino
Day 1 on the Camino. Walking beside people with lived experience of dementia who refuse to be defined by it — turning experience into strength 💪 and hope for others.
Humbled by their courage, they remind me: ageing is not decline. Buen Camino 🙏
#WTD25 #AgeingIsLiving
✈️ to Spain for Walk the Talk Dementia conference #WTD25 starting w/ a 40km Camino walk
For centuries, ppl walked this path to reflect. For me, it’s a chance to pause, think abt my own ageing, & how society sees older people
#AgeingIsLiving — and dignity never retires
🙌Last week, 9 🇭🇺🇮🇹🇲🇹🇵🇹🇸🇰🇸🇪🇹🇷🇬🇧🇺🇿 Member States joined the 1st Advisory Committee meeting to co-develop @whoeurope.bsky.social's #AgeingIsLiving Strategy (2026–2030)
💬"In today’s climate, we can’t afford to let healthy ageing slip from our priorities" – Dr @natashaazzmus.bsky.social
#AddingLifeToYears
👏Many thanks to our speakers: From Türkiye 🇹🇷 to Belgium 🇧🇪, Ireland 🇮🇪 to Spain 🇪🇸, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 to Italy 🇮🇹—local leaders are already transforming ageing
Their experiences are shaping @WHO_Europe's #AgeingIsLiving Strategy
🗳️ Have your say 👉 forms.office.com/e/sKXQNNen0p
“Ageing isn’t just about later life—it’s about how we live the whole way through” @natashaazzmus.bsky.social
On 4 June, @whoeurope.bsky.social gathered local & regional leaders to shape the #AgeingIsLiving Strategy
Health promotion, care, inclusion, ageism—local voices are leading the way
📣 La #WHOEurope con #NagusiIntelligenceCenter, te invita a dar forma a la Estrategia Ageing is Living (2026–2030).
🗓 4 junio 2025 | 🕙 10:00–12:00 CEST (online)
🔗 Regístrate 👉 bit.ly/3FxahS8
📋 Participa también en la encuesta: bit.ly/3Frd6US
#HealthyAgeing #AgeingIsLiving
🎙️ Just recorded a podcast w/ Siobhan Casey @copni.bsky.social & @whoeurope.bsky.social’s Stefania Ilinca, moderated by Maebh Ní Fhallúin
We explored how #AgeFriendly communities can enable older persons to thrive and stay connected
#AgeingIsLiving
Stakeholder engagement with civil societies to shape the upcoming WHO European Strategy on Ageing
People are living longer—but too often in poor health. That’s not inevitable—it’s a policy choice 🧭
🙌🏻Thanks to all who joined our civil society engagement to help shape our upcoming @whoeurope.bsky.social’s new Strategy on #AgeingisLiving
@natashaazzmus.bsky.social @undecadeageing.bsky.social
Happening TODAY!! Join us, your voice matters!
#AgeingIsLiving stakeholder consultation 🗓 27 May | 🕙 10:00–12:00 CEST
Help shape @whoeurope.bsky.social’s new strategy on healthy ageing & age-friendly societies.
🔗 Register: bit.ly/3ZbDKYD
#HealthyAgeing
@UNDecadeAgeing