The Life Course Centre is leading a component of a larger cross-national collaborative project by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on ‘Healthy Ageing over the Life Course’. The WHO project brings together life course experts from approximately 30 countries to develop a framework for measuring and monitoring healthy ageing over the life course. There are a number of components to this larger project, including developing a life course theoretical framework focused on healthy ageing, identifying how the life course approach can be used to support systems and policies that promote healthy ageing, examining available data for monitoring progress and outcomes, and developing a roadmap for collaborative action across WHO and member states.
The component led by the Life Course Centre is examining the data resources, and specifically linked administrative data resources, in a subset of countries for measuring and monitoring progress and outcomes. The countries involved in this component include Australia, Canada, Thailand, Mexico, Pakistan, India, Ghana and the United Kingdom.