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AGE AND AGEING
Volume 50, Issue 3, Pages 693-696Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afaa282
Keywords
climate change; ageing policy; adaptation; mitigation; resilience; life course; older people
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Population ageing is a major challenge of the 21st century, with policies often lacking a clear overarching narrative. Drawing from the success of climate change science, a framework of adaptation, mitigation, and resilience can be applied to design better policies for ageing.
Population ageing is presented as one of the 'grand challenges' of the 21st century. Yet, policies designed to offset these challenges seem to be a jumbled, disjointed mix with no clear, overarching narrative. One of the successes of climate change science is the development of a clear, distinguishable framework to plan action: adaptation, mitigation and resilience. This framework can be applied to designing better policy for ageing: adapting to support people in need today; mitigating future challenges by ensuring that people and institutions 'age better'; and building resilience by developing both a longer-term perspective and policy learning framework.
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