Adopting an adaptation-mitigation-resilience framework to ageing COMMENT

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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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.