AUTHOR=Costa Andreia , Câmara Gisele , Arriaga Miguel Telo de , Nogueira Paulo , Miguel José Pereira 

TITLE=Active and Healthy Aging After COVID-19 Pandemic in Portugal and Other European Countries: Time to Rethink Strategies and Foster Action

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.700279

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2021.700279

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=The population ageing in Europe imposes challenges to societies that require adaptations and responses at various levels to minimize impacts and figuring out opportunities. Portugal has been committed to the World Health Organization and European Union's values and policy frameworks concerning active and healthy ageing. In 2017, an inter-ministerial working group developed the National Strategy for Active and Healthy Ageing. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic that exposed the vulnerabilities of older populations, the launch of the Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021-2030 and its baseline report and the 2018 Active Ageing Index Analytical Report may constitute an opportunity to strategically think about the ageing of the population as a national purpose in Portugal and in the other European countries that face similar challenges.