Tag: healthy ageing

As the EU prepares to launch a pilot innovation partnership on "active and healthy ageing," patient groups are stressing that the initiative should not only focus on medical innovation, but also address age-friendly environments and access to health care.

The French EU Presidency's health priorities are five-fold: food safety, healthy ageing, cross-border health care, health determinants such as alcohol and tobacco and pharmaceuticals, French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot told Parliament.

The EU's upcoming 'Ambient Assisted Living' research programme, due to start next year, is expected to improve quality of life for older people by bringing about more efficient and personalised health care and creating new business opportunities for European industry.

In an ageing Europe, a healthy society and active workforce will be key determinants of sustainable productivity and economic growth and thus key conditions for the EU's Lisbon Agenda to deliver. Human capital has for long been recognised as a contributor to economic wealth, but it is forgotten that people can only accumulate and provide human capital if they are healthy, both physically and mentally. Far too often politics consider health as a cost and not as long-term investment in human capital.

Data on 22,000 people aged over 50 in eleven countries has been made available for scientists and social security planners to understand the challenges of Europe's ageing society better.

The EU's health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou wishes to ensure that people have access to high-quality healthcare and to support EU members in their efforts to make their health systems more efficient.

This ENEPRI Research Report tries to find a definition of what ageing is. In order to do that it attempts to answer the following questions: What does living longer mean? Is living longer and working less mutually compatible? Does living longer mean living better?

In the context of an ageing European society more attention needs to be drawn to the importance of adequate healthcare, volunteer work, social care, and the need to increase the participation of older persons in the labour force.

The special focus of this year's European Social Situation Report is the social dimension of health, including comparative indicators for the new Member States and candidate countries.

This report gives recommendations on how pension portability could be improved in the EU based on discussions in a CEPS Task Force on Cross-Border Portability of Pension Rights.

11 April marks the birthday of Dr. James Parkinson, who was the first to describe the symptoms of the disease. On this day, the EU highlights the importance of research.

The EU's public health programme, launched on 18 March, has a budget of over 312 million to improve health information and rapid reaction to health threats, as well as to address health determinants.